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Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger [1] and producer Mike Dibb. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name.
John Peter Berger (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ər / BUR-jər; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential.
In the television series and book Ways of Seeing (1972), the art critic John Berger used the term the male gaze to discuss and explain the sexual objectification of women in the arts and in advertising — by distinguishing that men look at and that women are looked at as the subject of an image, as a representation. Regarding the social ...
The concept of the "male gaze" was first used by the English art critic John Berger in Ways of Seeing, a series of films for the BBC aired in January 1972, and later a book, as part of his analysis of the treatment of the nude in European painting. Berger described the difference between how men and women view and are viewed in art and in society.
In 1965 she published her first major collection, A Way of Seeing. [21] Much of her work in color from 1959 to 1960 was stolen in a 1970 burglary of her East 12th Street apartment. The remaining photos, and others taken in the following years, can be seen in the 2005 book Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt. [22]
Brian Andreas (born 1956) is the pen name of Kai Andreas Skye, an American writer, artist, publisher and speaker known for his simple short stories of 50 to 100 words.. His two dimensional work takes the form of pen and ink drawings, gouache watercolors with original hand-written texts, books incorporating both art and the writings, and colorful art prints.
Svetlana Leontief Alpers (née Leontief; born February 10, 1936 [1]) is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic. [2] Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book The Art of Describing. [3]
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