“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” — so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art
John Berger's
Ways of Seeing
is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the
Sunday Times
critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on
how
we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.