Ways of Seeing - John Berger

‘Ways of Seeing’ was a BBC2 prrogram showed in the 1970s which was translated into a book of the same title. I was asked to read it as part of my art course, and reluctantly borrowed it from the library, expecting some dull artsy rubbish that I would not understand. Instead it is a thin book with bold type and not a lot of words. It has a rather strange format which I have not experienced in such a book before, in that there are seven chapters, four of which are written and illustrated, and the other three, interwoven with the written chapters, are simply illustrated. Berger explains that the written chapters put forward ideas to be developed in the ...