Ways of seeing

One of the most inspiring and influential books on art and visuality by the British critic, writer and artist John Berger (1926), it represents a key publication in the field of visual culture theory. For more than four decades, it has been finding its way to new generations of students of the humanities and arts, as well as to the wider public. The short, clearly written essays, which bring a revolutionary view of artistic images and methods of visual mass communication, offer a largely unsurpassed, critical reflection on the relations between visual culture, technology and social order. It is no exaggeration to say that Ways of Seeing has radically changed not only how we look at images, but especially how we think about them, since its first edition. Compared to the original black-and-white version, the Czech translation, which is being published for the first time ever, is accompanied by rich visual material in color.