Ways of Seeing Season 1

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1x01 Part One aired Jan 08, 1972

The first part of the television series draws on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction arguing that through repr... read more

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1x02 Part Two aired Jan 15, 1972

The second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty old masters depict a woman as herself rather than as a subject of male i... read more

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1x03 Part Three aired Jan 22, 1972

The third programme is on the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals who commissioned the work of art.

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1x04 Part Four aired Jan 29, 1972

In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reve... read more

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