“In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.” - Susan Sontag "Over the past sixty years, the great John Berger - art critic, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist - has made immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and politics, never more potently than in Ways of Seeing." - The Village Voice He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation." -Peter Fuller, Arts Review "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. ".perhaps the most bold, clear, and widely renowned explanation of art’s entanglement with capitalism." - The Paris Review It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace." -Geoff Dyer "The influence of the series and the book. "Berger fulfils the roles of a philosopher, listener, and somewhat of a magician as he makes tantalising worlds appear, and illusions vanish." - Pratibha Rai, Oxford Culture Review "It’s a book about art history and the media, but it’s also a magic trick." - The New Republic
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