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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...
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Season 1
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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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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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