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. 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. Tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and clean throughout, a superior example of a fragile book. Publisher's off-white stiff card wrappers printed in black and priced 60p. Crown 8vo (195 x 129mm): 170pp, with numerous illustrations. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following year. Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series.
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