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John Berger is celebrating four years in the Department of Family Medicine as of April 24. What do you most enjoy about your role in the Department? My favourite thing about working at Western is being in the campus environment and supporting our learners.
- Department Spotlight: John Berger
The department is pleased to welcome John Berger in the role...
- Department Spotlight: John Berger
The department is pleased to welcome John Berger in the role of Post-Graduate Coordinator, Scheduling and Recruitment. John graduated from Western University with a degree in Psychology and English Literature.
PLEASE NOTE: ELECTIVES MUST BE FOUR WEEKS (1 MONTH) IN DURATION (PART OF A MONTH IS NOT ACCEPTABLE). ALL ELECTIVES ARE ARRANGED BY JOHN BERGER AND DENNIS SUE, DEPT. OF FAMILY MEDICINE, WESTERN. Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
- The Power of Context
- Oil Painting and Conspicuous Consumption
- ‘Men Look at Women’
- Life and Influences
The opening line in the book seems so artless, so unthreatening: But context, argues Berger, is essential to understanding the meaning of what and how we see. In the modern world, since the invention of the camera, especially the movie camera, context has changed in ways that degrade the original intention of artists from earlier times. A film of a...
Ways of Seeing could be described as an “anti-art book”. Apart from a coloured cover, the illustrations are poor quality and printed in black and white. Their mediocrity is emphasised by the bold sans serif font of the text. The message has been incorporated into the medium. The corroding influence of money is perhaps Berger’s strongest argument. T...
The chapter of Ways of Seeing that most affected women art historians and curators of my generation was that in which Berger examines the western tradition as it panders to male voyeurism by depicting naked women as passive objects of desire. “Men look at women,” he writes. “Women watch themselves being looked at.” While Renaissance artists enjoyed...
Ways of Seeing is more than an art historical attack on the propertied classes. At times, Berger is capable of capturing the very essence of the artist’s intention. When he discusses a late self-portrait by Rembrandt he writes: Still, as a critic, Berger can also be mocking. For instance he is dismissive of the eminent art historian, Seymour Slive’...
- Joanna Mendelssohn
Jan 5, 2017 · Berger, who died on January 2 at the age of 90, has had a profound influence on the popular understanding of art and the visual image. He was also a vibrant example of the public intellectual,...
Still, after demonstrating Mulvey’s observation that women are often subjected to—and made to adopt—objectifying and sexualizing gazes, She’s the Man plays with Mulvey’s and Berger’s theories about the Gaze by parodying and subverting viewers’ expectations of the camera technique.
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Aug 24, 2020 · Directed by Mike Dibb and presented by the marxist critic John Berger, the series addressed the canon of western art history as well as contemporary consumer culture.
