In noting traditions in European art dating from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Berger makes considered reflections upon the intersections of seeing and possessing, convention and securing status – pondering the linear relationship between glamour, dreaming, and the language of publicity. Sharp but convivial and often magnetic, Berger’s writing on the function of art has an almost contemporary feel – a sensibility produced by an enduring fascination with aestheticism and the image. Perhaps the pre-eminent work of popular art history and criticism, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing manages to retain its sublime suggestive quality several decades after its initial publication in 1972.
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