8.4/1029 votesLoading...#1 - Commercial Art
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/1972
In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reversed. An idealised potential for the viewer (via consumption) is considered a substitution for the actual reality depicted in old master portraits.
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8.3/1040 votesLoading...#2 - Psychological Aspects
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/1972
The first part of the television series drew on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction arguing that through reproduction an Old Master's painting's modern context is severed from that which existed at the time of its making.
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#3 - Women in Art
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/1972
The second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition depict a woman as herself rather than as a subject of male idealisation or desire.
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- 8.1/1029 votesLoading...
#4 - Collectors and Collecting
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/1972
The third programme is on the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals who commissioned the work of art.
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The Best Episodes of Ways of Seeing
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John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Best Episodes Summary
"Commercial Art" is the best rated episode of "Ways of Seeing". It scored 8.4/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/29/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Psychological Aspects".