Ways of Seeing by Berger, First Edition (16 results)

Condition: New. 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. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages. Num Pages: 176 pages, Integrated illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 113 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136. 2008. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First printing of this seminal work Neat redacted name to the corner of the titlepage and slight bruising to the base of the spine otherwise a firm, clean copy. Controversial design for Penguin by Richard Hollis. See 'Penguin by Design' by Phil Baines. pages 176 and 177.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1972). 170pp. VG+ copy, spine uncreased, a couple of small marks to covers, hint of tanning to pages, internally clean throughout. Acquired from the library of English Establishment artist Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991), although no provenance.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin Books, London 1972 / Paperback. UK First Edition and First Impression. Very Good Paperback Original of this True First Printing (cover has some age toning and minor staining, with very minor wrinkling to bottom edges of first 30 pages; one small sticker on front free end-paper; previous owners signature on title page). Despite faults, a clean tight copy of this now scarce True First Printing.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: acceptable. First Edition. Good first edition hardcover in Acceptable dust jacket with mylar sleeve. Olive green boards clothbound in tan with blue text on spine. Previous owner's name and stamp on title page (photographer Allan Sekula). Considerable paper loss and scuffs to dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners to boards. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. A vibrant vintage edition. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First hardcover edition. First printing, with no later printings mentioned on the copyright page. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket, just with a a crease to the rear flap. An outstanding example. Based on the BBC television series which aired in 1972, the book features seven essays, three of which are image-only. It remains one of the most widely influential books on art, challenging the way we interpret images.

Stiff Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following year. Crown 8vo (195 x 129mm): 170pp, with numerous illustrations. Publisher's off-white stiff card wrappers printed in black and priced 60p. Tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and clean throughout, a superior example of a fragile book. Ways of Seeing, Berger's influential art text, was initially conceived as a series of four television episodes "The series was ground-breaking in its use of the TV format to introduce aspects of a materialist analysis of art to a non-specialist audience. The book of the series was constructed in a similar spirit of popular pedagogy and subsequently became a key introductory text in art colleges in Britain and the USA. Among the topics discussed in the book are the relationship between oil painting and private property, the sexual politics of the nude, the rhetoric of advertising images, and the impact on art of mechanical reproduction. . . . The book's account of the nude has been particularly influential and the analysis of spectatorship and the male gaze on which it is based has since been developed and extended by feminist critics." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Berger's influential art text, based on the BBC series of the same name, which popularized the deconstruction of art and advertising, particularly as applied to the ways that women are seen, and are subjected to what would later come to be called (by Laura Mulvey) "the male gaze," i.e., ".Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves." Ubiquitous in reprints; the true first is scarce. Very light wear to covers; near fine in wrappers. No hardcover edition was done until the U.S. edition a year later. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, price-clipped. "A Book Made by John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Michael Dibb, Richard Hollis." 160pp. Illustrated in black and white. Q12199.