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Art as manipulation in Berger's "Ways of Seeing"
Title: Art as manipulation in Berger's "Ways of Seeing"
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1163 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Art as manipulation in Berger's "Ways of Seeing"
Art as manipulation in Berger's "Ways of Seeing"
"To see only what is there is to be as blind as the night."
Annalyn Joie Tran
"Ways of Seeing" closely analyses the way we think about art. Indeed, perspectives on aesthetic production have a history, as John Berger states in the following phrases: "Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way." "Seeing comes …showed first 75 words of 1163 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1163 total…uniqueness and authenticity, and the people who see them comprehend. Undeniably, the perception of these images would be different because the museum provides a special atmosphere that engenders the sense of indoctrination.
Philosophically, Berger's essay is very forward thinking and definitely it still is very applicable to the perspective of the current "global domination capitalism." "Ways of Seeing" is not written exclusively for the professional pin pointer but also for the wide-eyed public (literally speaking).
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