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The book has contributed to feminist readings of popular culture, through essays that focus particularly on depictions of women in advertisements and oil paintings. cite book | last = Berger | first = John | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Ways of Seeing | publisher = British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books | date = 1972 | location = London | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0563122447 (BBC), ISBN 0140216316, ISBN 0140135154 (pbk) ] The book consists of seven numbered essays: four using words and images and three essays using only images. The book "Ways of Seeing" was made by Berger and Dibb, along with Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis.
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The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon."Ways of Seeing" was a 1972 BBC television series created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb, that gave rise to a later book of the same name. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. In the first programme, Berger examines the impact of photography on our appreciation of art from the past. Ways of Seeing A BAFTA award-winning BBC series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programmes ever made. His vision on art was much influenced by his outspoken marxist worldview. He was art teacher and painter but mostkonwn as a critic (work o.a. While drafted for military in 1944 he refused to become an officer and was send to Northern Ireland, where he first met contemporaries from a working-class. Ideal nude as a humanist idealism. Celebrate women or the male voyeur? Nudity as a garment and a uniform that says: i’m ready now for sexual pleasure.Ībout John Berger (1926-2017) Writer, painter, critic, television producer, essayist, theatermaker, poet, filmer. Passiveness: In western oil paintings, nakedness is a sign of submission and not of active sexual love. Often looks and body posture is directed towards the spectator and is addressing his sexuality and not her sexuality. Same with body hair (represent power…). They are there to feed an appetite not to have one on their own. Being available and waiting for somebody. Most female nudes in Western art history have been lined-up by their painters for the pleasure of the male spectator/owner who will assess and judge them as sights. Nude an awareness of being seen by the spectator. Naked and shame - Shame towards to spectator: that the one who shames them. A nude has to be seen as an object in order to be nude.” To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself. The nude is a form of art.” John Berger: “To be naked is to be oneself. Kenneth Clark: “Being naked is being without clothes. The nude in European painting convey some conventions in the way women were judged, in how they were seen (in society run by men). Berger examines these paintings and asks whether they celebrate women as they really are or only as men would like them to be. Women dream of themselves being dreamed on.” The portrayal of the female nude is an important part of the tradition of European art. Notes on Episode 2: the portrayal of the female nude “Men dream of women.


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