It's a book about art history and the media, but it's also a magic trick. –
The New Republic 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 The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace. –Geoff Dyer
...perhaps the most bold, clear, and widely renowned explanation of art's entanglement with capitalism. –
The Paris Review Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . 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
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 On John Berger: "In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless." –
Susan Sontag "We learned from him to see that basic assumptions about everything–work, play, art, commerce–are hidden in the surrounding culture of images." –
Jane Gaines
