Essays on John Berger

Looking at the Piece of Art This article written by John Berger focuses on the ways in which we view art as well as how women are perceived. He starts by stating that “the way we see things is affected by what we know or…

John Berger What We See and What We Know In the book Ways Of Seeing by John Berger, he indicates the connection between what we see and what we know is never appointed. We are surrounded by this thing called the world, however, in order…

Introduction I went to Cineplex movie theatre to watch John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. I arrived at the theatre half past noon and the people who were mostly attending the theatre were young kids, adults and couples. The theatre was not that full and I…

In “Ways of Seeing,” art critic John Berger discusses a key argument, which is, that if you know your history, then you know where you are coming from. In Berger’s more classically Marxist formulation he states, “A people or a class which is cut off…