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: ‘Ways of Seeing’ at 50: A book that adeptly reassesses the narratives behind Western European art #IndiaNEWS I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways

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‘Ways of Seeing’ at 50: A book that adeptly reassesses the narratives behind Western European art #IndiaNEWS
I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation).Ways of Seeing was like a blast of icy water – Berger stripped away the gloss to expose the capitalist ideology behind polite narratives, such as Clark’s, tracing the rise of western culture.The book of the series was released in the same year. By the time Berger died in 2017 this slim paperback, sometimes called art history’s equivalent of Mal&]HYYݙHZ[[ۈYˈ][[[ ^وYZ[YX]][HY][ۈو]X[Z[[H M  NL ]][X]]YۙY[[HHXY[ HܚX[ܚ[Hܚ][]]8']YۈHܙY[[[H[HYYYHXYK[XYH[X]Hܚ]]YHوHXY[ Y[[[XYوY[˕H[[[HوH[][ۈٚY]HۙKHݛKZZY[X[ً[[۝وۙHوHܙX]Xݙوۙ۸&][ۘ[[KX[x&[[XˈHY]و^XKXY[ܙH


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