#Ways of seeing archive#
#Ways of seeing series#

A British painter as well as a novelist, a poet, and art critic, Berger speaks confidently about topics that are familiar to him.

#Ways of seeing series#

Adapted from a four-part BBC television series, it is a direct transcription of BergerвЂ™s script, and it reads as such, as a series of declarative sentences and short emphatic statements. Influenced by Walter BenjaminвЂs seminal essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, it attempts to expose a conspiracy that has kept the work of artists, and the ideologies their images promote, out of the political discourse. Yet, somehow, for reasons I will try to explain below, Ways of Seeing is a marvelous book. None of those visuals are captioned, though some are identified in the margins. To illustrate the various arguments made by the author, muddy black-and-white reproductions of Western masterpieces consort with tacky advertising images from the early 1970s, a dreadful period in terms of aesthetics. Set in Univers 75 black, the heavy text jars you out of your comfort zone, frays your nerves, and wears down your resistance with short forcible sentences, until you surrender, bleary-eyed and furrowed brow, to the logic of its Marxist and feminist analysis. Susanne Leeb, Not Quite Embracing Failure.Oddly enough, what I find most appealing about this slim paperback is its awkward layout. History in Contemporary Art DE (click to download) Susanne Leeb, Not Quite Embracing Failure.

Helen Rosenau, Vision of the Temple (click to download) Jane Rendell, Walking (click to download)ДЇrances Yates, Architecture and the Art of Memory (click to download) Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey (click to download) Guy Debord, Theory of the DГ©rive (click to download) Louis Aragon, The Passage de l'Opera (click to download) Markus LГ¤hteenmaki, Everything in Life Can Be Montaged вЂ“ You Just Need to Find the Right WayвЂ™ (click to download)ДЄllan Sekula, Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (click to download) Robin Evans, Piero's Head (click to download)

#Ways of seeing archive#

John Berger - Ways of Seeing (click to view)Д¬olin Rowe, La Tourette (click to download)Д«eatriz Colomina, archive (click to download)Д«eatriz Colomina, interior (click to download)ДЎ9.03 Seminar 4: On Techniques/Devices, Perspective and Montage Seminar schedule and detailed description (click to download)ДЄssignment instructions (click to download) This seminar will help you reflect upon and revisit the use of visual material within your own architectural work. We will look at how meanings change between production and reception, and how images circulate and mediate between media, between individual and collective views, between times, places and cultures. In addition to providing various methods of visual analysis, this seminar will also critically examine the powerful practices of seeing, interpreting, assembling and translating the visual material of architecture. We will discuss methods and questions from the fields of seeing and the visual. Taking our title and cue from John Berger's groundbreaking tv-series on art made in 1972, the course seeks to engage with visual materials and extend Berger's ambition towards architecture. вЂњIt is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding worldвЂќ вЂ“ John Berger in 'Ways of Seeing'. What do images do? How can you understand drawings, photographs and other visual material in architectural practice? This course will give you a critical toolkit for questioning and understanding the visual material of architecture.