About Looking by John Berger

About Looking

John Berger

224 pages first pub 1980 (view editions)

nonfiction art philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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About Looking is a slow, reflective walk through art and seeing, meant for the reader who enjoys quietly dismantling the familiar and coming out with eyes newly tuned. If you like thoughtful, informative essays that leave you musing on how you look at the world, this book will feel like a calm, enlightening conversation.

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As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Lookin...

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3.97
based on 263 reviews

Moods

reflective: 83%

informative: 77%

inspiring: 38%

challenging: 33%

adventurous: 11%

relaxing: 11%

lighthearted: 5%

mysterious: 5%


Pace

15% of readers chose fast
40% of readers chose medium
45% of readers chose slow
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