Nuri's bookshelf: art en-US Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:41:41 -0800 60 Nuri's bookshelf: art 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Things & Thoughts I Drew When I Was Bored]]> 36182598 160 Naela Ali 6024244193 Nuri 0 to-read, art 4.10 2017 Things & Thoughts I Drew When I Was Bored
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]]> Ways of Seeing 19704715 How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.



"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."



"But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."



John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

]]> 209 John Berger Nuri 0 to-read, art 4.06 1972 Ways of Seeing
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature]]> 282445

The "dehumanization" of the title, which was meant descriptively rather than pejoratively, referred most literally to the absence of human forms in nonrepresentational art, but also to its insistent unpopularity, its indifference to the past, and its iconoclasm. Ortega championed what he saw as a new cultural politics with the goal of a total transformation of society.


Ortega was an immensely gifted writer in the best belletristic tradition. His work has been compared to an iceberg because it hides the critical mass of its erudition beneath the surface, and because it is deceptive, appearing to be more spontaneous and informal than it really is.


Princeton published the first English translation of the essay paired with another entitled "Notes on the Novel." Three essays were later added to make an expanded edition, published in 1968, under the title The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature .]]> 204 José Ortega y Gasset 0691019614 Nuri 0 4.01 1925 The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
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]]> Realm of Light 7854883 258 Nicholas Roerich 1448621534 Nuri 0 to-read, art 4.00 2006 Realm of Light
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]]> Ways of Seeing 2784 John Berger’s Classic Text on Art

Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times a critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" —Peter Fuller, Arts Review

"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" —Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling.]]> 176 John Berger 0140135154 Nuri 0 art, to-read 3.93 1972 Ways of Seeing
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