Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Printing lecture overheads Find lecture on studioit, under Stage 1 Right Click PPT. Do NOT choose Print Target Choose Save target as Save Powerpoint to your files or to the Desktop Once file is saved, choose Open The file is now open in Powerpoint Find Print what: Choose Handouts Find Color/grayscale: Choose Black and White Find Slides per page: Choose number. Click OK
Academic Reserve
Video, as per all texts on any Bibliography this semester, is on the Academic Reserve Ask for the video at the Helpdesk at the entrance to the Library Quote Title and Shelf Number: V2194 Borrow headphones. Watch on video player on 5th floor of Library
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled
John Berger. 1926 Ways of Seeing. 1972. BBC television series. 4 Programmes. Critical response to Kenneth Clarks television series: Civilisation. 1969. Book published in same year; 1972. 4 essays / 3 visual essays. Reading: final and 7th essay.
Books
On Berger: Murray, C. Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century. London: Routledge; 2003, pp49-55. On concurrent criticism of consumer culture and mass media: Raizman, D. Beyond High and Low Art: Revisiting the Critique of Mass Culture. In: Raizman, D. A history of modern design. Graphics and products since the industrial revolution. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd; 2004, pp311-13. For a recent synopsis of the relationship between art, money and power, see: Freeland, C. Money, markets, museums. In: Freeland, C. But is it art? Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2001, pp90-121
Other
Website: A website supporting a series of cultural events designed around the work of John Berger in 2005. It includes a biography, a bibliography and links to a series of newspaper articles and interviews with Berger. http://www.johnberger.org/
Video Ways of Seeing. 4. The Language of Advertising (videocassette). London: British Broadcasting Corporation; 2001. (There are 4 videos in total, all worth viewing, but 2 in the collection are currently damaged. On re-order.)
The crisis of art history aesthetes and iconographers on the one hand tending the shrines of genius and antiquity, and revolutionaries on the other, bent on overturning the temples of art, mammon and patriarchy
(Fernie, E. 1995)
Does the language of publicity have anything in common with that of oil painting?
John Berger. Ways of Seeing. P134.
Ever since I was a student, I have been aware of the injustice, hypocrisy, cruelty, wastefulness and alienation of our bourgeois society as reflected and expressed in the field of art.
J Berger. Permanent Red. 1979
it is necessary to see works of art freed from all the mystique which is attached to them as property objects. It then becomes possible to see them .in terms of action
J Berger. 1966
http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/sanford.htm
Theodore Adorno. 1903-69. The culture industry created false needs to passify the consumer Vance Packard. The Hidden Persuaders. 1957
What the probers are looking for, of course, are the whys of our behaviour, so that they can more effectively manipulate our habits and our choices in their favour.to probe why we are afraid of banks, why we love those big fat cars
V Packard. 1957
Ways of Seeing
4. The Language of Advertising