" 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 wold; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The realation between what we see and what know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential boos 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 connecting on how we look at paintings... he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has
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