all seasons:
1
director:
Mike Dibb
playwright:
John Berger
actor:
John Berger
genre:
Documentary
region:
UK
language:
English
season number: 1
number of episodes: 4
release date:
1972-01-08
(Premiere)
IMDb: tt1302546
website:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dtnvm
overview
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole hose of assumptions concerning that nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.