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My April Christmas gift …. That‘s what I read this month (( one of many reads ))

Another truth bomb.

“the publicity image steels her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product� 🤯🤯🤯

So many truths in this book. Made me think about a lot of things, didn‘t agree with everything but a very interesting read. Will not walk into museums in quite the same way and will definitely try to be more conscious of how publicity makes us feel 😳

Replenishments for the #GreatestBooks Display ğŸ˜�! I‘m relieved to see books getting borrowed off of this one; I figured patrons would think them too old, boring, and full of wind-baggery.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksDisplays

The perfect introduction to art theory probably, I wish someone had made me read this years ago. This illustrates perfectly how easy it is for great writers of theory to illustrate complex theoretical points in simple language. If I was a teacher of any kind I‘d set this as absolutely essential reading, for pretty much any subject

Art theory and quick dinner at a Korean place before i head to the festival hall for Marlon James. Been a very anxious day for me but I‘m excited for Marlon!

Next up to round out the last day of #24b4monday and keep working on the shelves and shelves of unread books in my rook. I‘m making really good progress on them at the moment, I‘m grateful for the motivation I‘ve had. This will be 9/50 books I aim to read and give away this year

When I saw that Overdrive had a newly-added audiobook, John Berger‘s Ways of Seeing, I got excited. It‘s been a long time since I read it and I looked forward to revisiting it, even without the visual parts. Except it‘s not! It‘s an ANALYSIS of John Berger‘s Ways of Seeing. Waaah! ☹ï¸�

"Oil painting, before it was anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have."

Painting: "Mr and Mrs Andrews" by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750

#estates #150PnPCoverParty @CrowCAH @LeahBergen

Adding this book to my curriculum of life: "Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extreme deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable."

"A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually."

The way John Berger talks about Art History is quite different from anything I have read before. The way he links politics and contemporary culture to art was worth reading about.#waysofseeing #johnberger

I really, really like how Berger connects politics and art a lot. I would like to read more art criticism in this vein. He always gives me things to think about. I don't really like the layout of this book though. It should have been a coffee table size with larger, color images. I can't wait to read Portraits and Landscapes by him, both later this year. A real delight to read this.

Why I read it: #mountTBR book 2, RIP John Berger.

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BOOM.

Maybe such a cliche to say he helped me to see differently, but it's the truth. Thank you, John Berger https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-smuggling-operation-john-bergers-theory-of...

RIP

John Berger in 1972. Still innovative today.

As John Berger passed away today, it seemed to be the right day to start this essay collection. If you haven't seen his documentary Ways of Seeing, all four parts are on YouTube. It's fantastic. RIP, John 😢

I have yet to read this essay collection on art, but was inspired to buy it after watching John Berger's four part documentary also called Ways of Seeing on YouTube--I strongly recommend watching it! It's from the 70s but feels seriously ahead of its time and is a terrific starting point for understanding how to evaluate art. #seasonsreadings2016 @RealLifeReading

Library sale, (rushed) Day 1. I'll look for more tomorrow! 📚