Ways Of Seeing

Please allow 7 working days to process before shippingGarment Dyed Short Sleeve Tee - Color: Wine100% ring spun cotton “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” In 1972 BBC premiered a series of four 30-minute films written and anchored by art critic and author John Berger. Soon adapted into a book, "Ways of Seeing" went on to become a landmark postmodernist critique of Western cultural aesthetics, exploring not only how visual culture came to dominate society but also how ideologies are created and transmitted via images — a subject of pressing timeliness in that golden age of photography. In the third episode of the series, Berger looks at oil painting and its formative role in the creation of consumer culture, showing that paintings are, before anything else, objects to be bought and sold, and admonishing that “we should be somewhat wary of a love of art”: Berger writes in the book:“Publicity is the culture of the consumer society. It propagates throu