How John Berger changed our way of seeing art
Berger considered how through history and visual representation the male gaze has constrained women. John Berger's Ways of Seeing
AuthorsYasmin GunaratnamReader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Vikki BellProfessor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an idea but also an invitation to see and know the world differently: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled,” he wrote.
Berger considered how through history and visual representation the male gaze has constrained women. John Berger's Ways of Seeing
AuthorsYasmin GunaratnamReader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Vikki BellProfessor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an idea but also an invitation to see and know the world differently: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled,” he wrote.
