![]() ![]() (That had been the tone of Kenneth Clark’s series Civilisation, broadcast a few years before Berger, whose implicit suggestion was that the critic’s unique gaze was privileged and exclusive.)īerger, in that quiet way, unraveled the concept of civilization as a museum of great works into which we might be occasionally admitted to admire and gasp. It was the complete opposite of what until then we might have recognized as the voice of the art critic - sonorous, authoritative, and obviously the possessor of secrets available only to small selected groups. It was the same voice that you heard in his later writings - a seductive invitation to think and look together. He spoke quietly, conversationally, with a tendency to poetic metaphors that made surprising, unexpected connections between art and other human activities. But as for many people of my generation, who were captivated by his epoch-making television series on art Ways of Seeing, it is his manner of speaking that first comes to mind. John Berger powerfully examined the way we view the world.
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