W e know th a t the earth is turning aw ay fro m it. The relation b etw een w h a t w e see and w h a t w e k n o w is never settled. It is seeing w hich establishes our place in the surrounding w o rld w e explain th a t w o rld w ith w ords, but w o rd s can never undo the fa c t th a t w e are surrounded by it. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.īut there is also another sense in w hich seeing conies before w o rd s. Our principal aim has been to s ta rt a process o f questioning.ġ Seeing comes before w o rd s. None o f the essays pretends to deal w ith more than certain aspects o f each subject: particularly those aspects th ro w n into relief by a modern historical consciousness. In all cases, how ever, th is in fo rm ation can be found in the List of Works Reproduced w h ich is printed a t the end o f th e book. Som etim es in the pictorial essays no in form ation a t all is given about the images reproduced because it seemed to us th a t such in fo rm atio n m ight d is tra c t fro m the points being made.
These purely picto rial essays (on w ays o f seeing w om en and on various con tradicto ry aspects o f th e tra d itio n o f the oil p ainting) are intended to raise as many questions as th e verbal essays. Four o f the essays use w ords and images, three o f them use only images. The book consists o f seven numbered essays. The fo rm o f the book is as much to do w ith our purpose as the argum ents contained w ith in it. They have influenced not only w h a t w e say but also h o w w e have set about tryin g to say it. W e have trie d to extend and elaborate these ideas.
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Our s ta rtin g point w as some o f the ideas contained in th e television series Ways of Seeing. Middlesex, England ISBN 0 14 021631 6 First published in Great Britain by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books Ltd 1972 30 29 28 27 First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press (A Richard Seaver Book) 1973 Published in Penguin Books in the United States o f America 1977 Copyright in all countries of the International Copyright Union 1972 by Penguin Books Ltd All rights reserved Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic Filmsel in M onophoto IJnivers Except in the United States o f America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in w.hich it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth. Ontario, Canada 元R 1B4 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U SA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd.
England Viking Penguin, a division o f Penguin Books USA Inc. Published by the British Broadcasting Corporation, 35 M arylebone High Street, London W1M 4AA ISBN 47 and by P E N G U IN BO O K S Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ. WAYS OF SEEING based on the BBC television series withī ritish Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, M ichael Dibb, Richard Hollis
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