One that appreciates and creates beauty for beauty’s sake.”Īrt history, also known as art historiography, is the historical analysis of the visual arts. It highlights a different side to the human soul. “Art, on the other hand, forces us to look beyond the basic need for survival. As it is put on : “It is easy to look at the history of humanity and note that much of our development and expansion came from a basic, primal need and will to survive.” Without the ability to express ourselves through art forms, we are simply our Neolithic ancestors. What separates the civilised human from savages? Culture. The starting reference for the mentioned essays was the forty years older text by Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which has set the still not surpassed theoretical grounds for a reflection on the changes in our visual sensibility brought about by the possibility of endless reproduction and multiplication of images.A brief look at 11 of the best art history books every art lover should read. Experienced and erudite in many areas, Berger synthesised a large scope of knowledge in his essays, from art history, structuralism, and anthropology to sociology and critical theory. received the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize), an author appreciated by both the literary as well photography, film, and visual arts sphere.
John Berger is an art historian and critic, painter and novelist (his novel G. John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most inspiring and influential books on art ever written in any language, though it was actually adapted from a BBC television series. The book brings us essays proposing a way how to understand tradition and enjoy through contemporary eyes. Ways of Seeing is a text book, a manual, a must read for all trying to understand the relations between biological, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of visual reception and for all those aiming to rethink the cultural history of the viewed and the seen with the help of Berger's in-depth analysis.
Ways of Seeing was published in 1972, immediately gaining wide recognition and a number of prizes, among other also the Guardian Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize, bringing its author, till then disapproved by the art critics' sphere, to an important and visible social position. Thirty-seven years after its first publication, the fundamental work of the important thinker and art theoretician and critic John Berger is finally translated also to Slovenian.
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