About looking
by
Berger, John.
Title
:
About looking
Author
:
Berger, John.
ISBN
:
9780747599579
Personal Author
:
Berger, John.
Publication Information
:
London : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Physical Description
:
205 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
General Note
:
Originally published: London : Writers and Readers, 1980.
Contents
:
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 Experience of the City ; Le tour and Humanism ; Francis Bacon and Walt Disney ; An 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.
Abstract
:
John Berger 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 20th century? What is it about looking at war photos that doubles their already potent violence? He answers these questions amongst others.
Subject Term
:
Art -- Psychology.
Visual perception.
Meaning (Psychology)
Art -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst00815321
Meaning (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01013157
Visual perception. (OCoLC)fst01168049
Estetik.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| VEGA Cape Town | Recommended Books | 000037144 | 701.15 BER | 1 |
| VEGA Durban | Recommended Books | 000011178 | 701.15 BER | 1 |
| VEGA Pretoria | General Books | 000133841 | 701.15 BER | 1 |