Ways of Seeing - John Berger
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Ways of Seeing

Updated: 21 Jun 2023
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” -- so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at artJohn Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the 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.
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…should be on every college syllabus: I would say John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. This question is so hard, because there are so many books that I think should be on college syllabuses.
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