book summaries, Product Description
"Seeing comes ago words. The infant looks and recognizes ago it may speak.""But there is likewise another discrimination in which seeing comes ago words. It is seeing which establishes our ensconce in the environment world; we interpret that world with words, except word may by no means undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relative between what we see and what we know is by no means settled."John Berger s "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on craft in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series roughly which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we appearance at paintings ...he will nearly of course detransitivise the way you appearance at pictures." By now he has.
About the Author
John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels & stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of craft criticism. His prototypal novel, "A Painter of Our Time", was published in 1958, & since then his books have included the romance "G.", which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps. 
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