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    In this essay by Walker Percy‚ entitled "The Loss of the Creature" the notions of perception‚ appreciation‚ and sovereignty are strongly analyzed. The essay brings to our attention some of the most common things around; which are biases of likeness and manufactured conditioning‚ en vogue today. It is often said‚ "perception is reality." Reality to us is the way we look at things‚ see them‚ or perceive them. In this decade however‚ with the fast growing technological innovations and the rapid commercialization

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    the oil paintings of the 18th century to the publicity images of the 21st century. This comparison with the previous century oil paintings and human behavioural response to publicity are the two main highlights of John Berger’s thought provoking write up in ‘Ways of Seeing’. John Berger began his professional career as an artist. An art student from the Chelsea

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    of Seeing” John Berger -“Ways of Seeing “ The essay by John Berger Ways of Seeing‚ published in 2013 from the book “Readings for Writers”‚ describes the relation of what we see and how it can be interpreted by what we know or believe. The way you visualize an image will be different as how someone else appreciates it and this changes the way we see. He also states that every image embodies a way of seeing; however on how we appreciate the image depends on the way we see things. Berger acknowledges

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    This will help me as I discuss the intertextuality within the dialogue and will help support my argument that the intertextuality in the episode and the show as a whole furthers character development and audiences’ perception of the characters. BergerJohn‚ Sven Blomberg‚ Chris Fox‚ Michael Dibb‚ and Richard

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    The Art of Publicity In the book Ways of Seeing‚ the author‚ John Berger creates the deeper understanding of the look on art‚ along with the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day publicity. The book not only explores how visual culture came to dominate society but also how ideologies are created and transmitted via images. There are things people cannot describe in words but that images can illustrate. Images have the power to mystify the viewers‚ which means

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    In Chapter 3 of his book‚ “Ways of Seeing”‚ John Berger argues that in western nude art and present day media‚ that women are largely shown and treated as objects upon whom power is asserted by men either as figures in the canvas or as spectators. Berger’s purpose is to make readers aware of how the perception of women in the art so that they will recognize the evolution of western cultured art. Berger begins by claiming that in nude art the “presence” of a man is that of an actor who asserts

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    “Ways Of Seeing” by John Berger‚ the authors try to convey a similar point‚ but in two different contexts. Tannen describes a conference meeting and how she views others around her (Tannen 444). Berger on the other hand uses European oil paintings to show how only women are judged by the male eyes in society‚ Unlike a man‚ a woman has two elements to her identity‚ “the surveyor and the surveyed” (Berger 5). He also goes on to note that herself as the surveyor is male (Berger 5). This shows that

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    Nicole Selby Professor Williams Summary Analysis Revision 15 April 2013 John Berger’s Ways of Seeing: Summary Analysis In his article‚ “Ways of Seeing” (1972)‚ John Berger analyzes different methods of being able to see or look at both people and objects in the world. He tells his audience how the invention of technology has affected the way people see and portray art and by means of mystification‚ which is the process of explaining away which is evident. He explains how seeing affects the

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    One perspective from which Japanese women are viewed is articulated by John Berger in an excerpt from his book Ways of Seeing. In this excerpt describing the nude woman as a subject of an artwork‚ Berger posits the theory that western women suffer from a split-self identity. According to Berger‚ this affliction‚ while reflected in the Western artistic cannon‚ is absent from the non-western traditions. It is observed by Berger that in Japanese visual arts‚ the content is “likely to show active sexual

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    this art do not look at it with the right approach. It’s more so them just walking around glancing at each piece not really taking a minute to appreciate each aspect of the painting. This is very similar to Walker Percy’s Loss of the Creature’s and John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. Percy and Berger’s main focus in their works of literature talk about how people will just look at something and not actually SEE the intended meaning behind it. In order to have more people respect art‚ us artists need to

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