He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation.' -Peter Fuller, Arts Review 'Over the past sixty years, the great John Berger - art critic, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist - has made immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and politics, never more potently than in Ways of Seeing.

It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace.' -Geoff Dyer 'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. ' - The Village Voice On John Berger: 'In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.' - Susan Sontag 'We learned from him to see that basic assumptions about everything-work, play, art, commerce-are hidden in the surrounding culture of images.' - Jane Gaines, 'The influence of the series and the book. It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace.' -Geoff Dyer '.perhaps the most bold, clear, and widely renowned explanation of art's entanglement with capitalism.' - The Paris Review 'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. Based on the BBC television series, John Bergers Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series. 'It's a book about art history and the media, but it's also a magic trick.' - The New Republic 'Berger fulfils the roles of a philosopher, listener, and somewhat of a magician as he makes tantalising worlds appear, and illusions vanish.' - Pratibha Rai, Oxford Culture Review 'The influence of the series and the book.

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