In the same year when John Berger's Ways of Seeing BBC documentary appeared, he published the novel G, for which he won the Booker Prize. Besides studies of individual artists, he also wrote plays and experimental fiction. Starting out as a visual artist, a profession he never fully abandoned, Berger turned to written words, books and mass media to transfer his polemical and at the time often controversial art history surveys. His erudite yet accessible style of writing is perhaps best known through his seminal work Ways of Seeing, a successful BBC TV series that he authored in 1972, and which was followed by an equally successful book of the same title. One of the academic superstars, his work has profoundly influenced not just academia but more generally art lovers and aficionados worldwide. 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.Two days into 2017, John Berger passed away at the age of 90.

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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