Ways of seeing : based on the BBC television series
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Ways of seeing : based on the BBC television series
（Penguin books）
British Broadcasting Corporation , Penguin Books, 1977, c1972
Available at 20 libraries
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"First published in the United States of America by the Viking Press (A Richard Seaver Book) 1973, published in Penguin Books in the United States of America 1977" -- t.p. verso
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings ...he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
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