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About Looking

(Vintage International)

By John Berger

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| Paperback | 9780679736554

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As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we seContinue

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger quietly -- but fundamentally -- alters the vision of anyone who reads his work.

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  • Interesting Thinker

    John Berger always has something interesting to say about Art and this is a collection of essays that discusses artists such as Rodin and Turner. Even if wanders off into some presentious areas he is able to juxtapose ides such as Francis Bacon and Walt Disney as artists that wake you up.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 224 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0679736557
  • ISBN-13: 9780679736554
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jan 08, 1992
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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