John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps.
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."
"But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) 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.
观看为何? 对于进入机械复制时代之后的人类,这成为一个难以直面的问题。 工业革命带来的摄影技术进步,使得旧时代影像的绝对性与唯一性被彻底颠覆,艺术作品亦远离贵族垄断,走下神坛,逐渐被普罗大众频繁地通俗使用。早在19世纪,被称为“欧洲最后一位知识分子”...
評分这几天在读John Berger的《观看之道》(Ways of Seeing)。 这是一部介绍如何阅读平面影像的书,体例为文字和图片的结合,一章图片,一章文字,交错进行。可能是翻译的问题,感觉聱牙诘屈,并不甚长的一本书抠了好多天还是没有完结。虽如此,一些具体的说法已足以改变我本来便...
評分观看先于言语。似乎是常识,却常常为人所忽视。事实上,新千年以来的迅猛变化,人们被越来越多的影像包围,早已对此毫不陌生习以为常,犹如平静的水面。偶尔,这水面会被投入一颗石子,才泛起一两丝涟漪。 最新的石子是一副画。11月,美国艺术家Robert Ryman的绘画作品《无题...
評分这本约翰·伯格(John Berger)的《观看之道》字数不多,区区的一百七十多页,却夹杂着大量用以解释说明的图片。可想而知,既然讲述的是欣赏艺术之道,旁边如果不附以范图作为参考与佐证,也说不过去。这本书我是与《抵抗的群体》差不多同步看完的。后者更主要从艺术家背景...
評分此书购于数年前。反复阅读。受益匪浅。书中内容围绕着一个焦点image。它不是我们原始肉眼所见的影像,而是人为的创作摹拟。观看先于语言。看把物和人拉入共谋的关系,所有的image反映的都是一个主题:人是怎么在看。在看的过程中。不可避免的过滤掉了一些东西。最后呈现在我们...
愛死老頭子瞭。很有啓發性的小書,而且一點也不裝腔作勢。
评分看到最後的時候纔發現,恍惚的覺得,原來爺爺是反資本主義啊。。。忘瞭之前是在哪裏看到的瞭,說,藝術傢和藝術存在的意義,不是要給齣解決問題的方案,而是要通過他們的觀察和創作,給大眾提供一種認識世界並改變世界的可能(大意)。所以,berger爺爺在做的,大概就是讓大眾怎麼纔能看到這種“可能”吧。。。
评分看到最後的時候纔發現,恍惚的覺得,原來爺爺是反資本主義啊。。。忘瞭之前是在哪裏看到的瞭,說,藝術傢和藝術存在的意義,不是要給齣解決問題的方案,而是要通過他們的觀察和創作,給大眾提供一種認識世界並改變世界的可能(大意)。所以,berger爺爺在做的,大概就是讓大眾怎麼纔能看到這種“可能”吧。。。
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评分It changed the way people think about painting and art criticism, I love the chapter of Publicity and Capitalism. Thanks for recommending by @61010749
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