His influence will be felt for decades to come. He believed that the enjoyment and appreciation of art should not be saved for a privileged, pretentious few who thought their perceptions and tastes to be the standard. This was no doubt governed by his notably Marxist outlook on life. , Berger popularised the attitude that art should be for all. Berger sums up the inherent hypocrisy in images of women created for the patriarchal male gaze: Berger argues that the systemic objectification of women in visual art has continued from the oil paintings of centuries past, into the films and advertisements of recent times. It�۪s his writing in the depiction of women in art that is most enduring. The modern interrogation of centuries-old oil paintings was a milestone in cultural theory.
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His book Ways of Seeing, of the same title as the TV docu-series is a ubiquitous reading list choice for many third level students of arts and humanities. The 90-year-old artist, critic and writer, who passed away on January 2nd in Paris, leaves behind a rich and noble legacy of compassion learning - and a disdain for exclusive cultural gatekeeping.He argued that the way a work of art was perceived differed depending on the person who was perceiving it, and that your own ideology and background guided your absorption of cultural artefacts. John Berger was a man who forged a path to help dismantle the notion of art being something for an elite few. Delivery charges may apply.John Berger (5 November 1926 ��� 2 January 2017) To support The Guardian and Observer, order your copy at. (The Boy Who Got) Accidentally Famous by David Baddiel is published by HarperCollins. No doubt that’ll be lovely to cosy up to in front of the fire. I’m writing a book about atheism and have ordered a text of the Barcelona Disputation of 1263, which was a debate between a rabbi and a friar organised by King James of Aragon about who’s right: Jews or Christians? Only one way to find out: The Inquisition, as it turns out. I very much liked The Circle, which I thought was ahead of the game about what the internet is doing to us, so I’m keen to read the sequel, if my eyes allow me. I do have, in actual book form, waiting for me The Every by Dave Eggers. I imagine I wouldn’t like the Whizzer and Chips Annual quite as much as I did back then. It has passages of intense beauty, and also – in a way she never quite managed elsewhere – the most satisfying and elegant structure of all great books. I can hear all of Eliot’s yearning and pain and nuance about time and tide and marriage and compromise and the pressure of the social order. Now, in my late 50s, I think – unoriginally – it is indeed the greatest novel written in English. And to do that he’s prepared to go sentence after sentence refining complexities of mood and thought and expression. Now it’s clear to me that James was inventing psychological modernity in the novel. I read a fair amount of James, particularly when I was doing a PhD in Victorian literature and sexuality, but although I found him interesting, I also found him soulless and convoluted. I’m presently reading, or rather listening to, The Wings of the Dove by Henry James. It converted me to the idea that, as Updike puts it, the job of art is to give the mundane its beautiful due – that if you are a good enough writer, your prose can make everything, even the most microscopic and ordinary things in life, rich and strange. Again when I was 18, I read it without realising it was part of a sequence of books, Rabbit Is Rich. In the book, this is primarily about art(particularly how images of women in art are utterly encoded with the male gaze) but I took from it an understanding that nearly everything we create, indeed think, has an underlying unconscious ideological component. It introduced me to the idea that what we assume to be natural is often ideological. I imagine if I returned to these books now they’d be a hive of racism, classism and body fascism, so I won’t. I became a fan and joined a Frank Richards appreciation society, The Old Boys’ Book Club, where I was 11 and everyone else was 80. And from the perspective of Dollis Hill in 1973, the crumpet-toasting adventures at Greyfriars School felt exciting. This is again to do with my mum being a collector, as they were written in the 1920s and 30s, and so out of date, even in the 70s, but she foisted them on me. Reading for myself began with comics, mainly the Beano, Whizzer and Chips, and in our house, The Broons and Oor Wullie, not because we’re Scottish but because my mum collected kids’ books and annuals from everywhere. My mum reading me Ladybird books, in Dollis Hill, north-west London, in 1971.
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