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This essay is about "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger.

Date Submitted: 03/24/2003 18:52:32
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1242 words)
Questions for a Second Reading. 1.Berger's use of the word "history" always constitutes the relation and contrast between the present and it's past. He says that if we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past. "Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way." (p.112) Art is now a language of image. It is who …
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…the wealthy quarters, with a prosperity of buildings, dominated by an monumental Gothic church. There is a countless list of details to this painting. The only problem is that we can hardly see it because we are not looking at the original piece of work. This only proves one more time why is it so important to examine the actual color paintings, and why does it take an expert to "really" see what is there.
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