John Berger - "Ways of Seeing" - summary and revienow classic article "Ways of Seeing" (1972) revolutionarily, for his time, analyses the manner in which men and women are culturally represented, and the subsequent results these representations have on their conduct and self as well and mutual perception. His influence will be felt for decades to come. He believed that the enjoyment and appreciation of art should not be saved for a privileged, pretentious few who thought their perceptions and tastes to be the standard. This was no doubt governed by his notably Marxist outlook on life. , Berger popularised the attitude that art should be for all.
Berger sums up the inherent hypocrisy in images of women created for the patriarchal male gaze: Berger argues that the systemic objectification of women in visual art has continued from the oil paintings of centuries past, into the films and advertisements of recent times. It�۪s his writing in the depiction of women in art that is most enduring. The modern interrogation of centuries-old oil paintings was a milestone in cultural theory. His book Ways of Seeing, of the same title as the TV docu-series is a ubiquitous reading list choice for many third level students of arts and humanities.
The 90-year-old artist, critic and writer, who passed away on January 2nd in Paris, leaves behind a rich and noble legacy of compassion learning - and a disdain for exclusive cultural gatekeeping.He argued that the way a work of art was perceived differed depending on the person who was perceiving it, and that your own ideology and background guided your absorption of cultural artefacts. John Berger was a man who forged a path to help dismantle the notion of art being something for an elite few. John Berger (5 November 1926 ��� 2 January 2017)
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