Main entry:

Berger, John, author.

Title & Author:

About looking / John Berger.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1980]
©1980

Description:

198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Why look at animals? -- Uses of photography: The suit and the photograph -- Photographs of agony -- Paul Strand -- Uses of photography -- Moments lived: the primitive and the professional -- Millet and the peasant -- Seker Ahmet and the Forest -- Lowry and the industrial North -- Ralph Fasanella and the city -- La Tour and humanism -- Francis Bacon and Walt Disney -- Article of faith -- Between two Colmars -- Courbet and the Jura -- Turner and the barber's shop -- Rouault and the suburbs of Paris -- Magritte and the impossible -- Hals and bankruptcy -- Giacometti -- Rodin and sexual domination -- Romaine Lorquet -- Field.

Summary:

"As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger quietly - but fundamentally - alters the vision of anyone who reads his work."--Pub. desc.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0394511247
9780394511245
0394739078 (pbk.)
9780394739076 (pbk.)

Subject:

Visual perception.
Meaning (Psychology)
Art Psychology.
Photography Psychology.
Social classes.
Sex and art Psychology.
Arts Psychology.
Visual Perception
Social Class
Arts Psychologie.
Perception visuelle.
Signification (Psychologie)
Art Psychologie.
Photographie Psychologie.
Classes sociales.
Sexualité et art Psychologie.
visual perception.
social classes.
Waarneming.
Kunst.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 10498
Call No.: N71.B398 1980 (PO10633)
Status: Available