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Ways of seeing : based on the BBC television series directed by Michael Dibb by John Berger; Michael Dibb is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "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 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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Author

John Berger; Michael Dibb

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140135152

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

4 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24