![]() ![]() Having studied art at a high school level, and having taken some consolation in it during a poorly chosen business degree, soon to be abandoned, Berger offered a perspective not only on art, but my cynicism of capitalism and the commodification of workers. ![]() Ideas that seem to be common, or givens, at least in some sections of the community, now, were new to me then. For me the interest lay in its different perspective on art, as well as a means of understanding how women and men relate on the level of objects and consumers. The book had a big impact on me at the time, as it did the art establishment of the early seventies. ![]() Last year when I heard of John Berger’s death, I was reminded of this little book I read when I was at university. ![]()
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