Ways of Seeing Mass Market Paperback – Deckle Edge, 25 September 2008

I loved reading this book. It is an introduction for amateurs trying to understand art. It primarily talks about literally "seeing" how we see what's before us and how what we see affects us. It also says a great deal about oil paintings, their impact and their evolution, everything is introductory not in detail. Nevertheless a good place to start.

This is one of my favourite books on art criticism. Nakedness and nudity is very well defined. Wonderful explanation on advertisement and propaganda. Good one if you want to understand oil painting tradition too.

Typical Mass Market Paperback

However, the bbc documentary of the same books could be more appealing, rather than reading the book. As the book is black and white, the colored photographs are not visible. Also the quality of the photographs are not good. In the documentary the author has decribed in more details with simultaneous photographs or paintings. Essesnce of misic, which is another important aspect of ways of seeing that the author could describe in the video, can not be explained in the book.

Book is about prespective. And it will change yours, once you read it. It’s about how we interpret art and how we ought to depend on our sensibilities in interpreting it.

Love this book..

This could as well be a psychology book. It has some rare insights into history and culture surrounding art. Also how society and media have influenced each other, including the perception of women over a period of history.The book has 7 essays- 4 text and 3 picture essays. The text essays form the part of the book worth reading. The picture essays have ZERO words. It is up to the reader to comprehend them and understand them (which personally, I felt a bit lost after reading through the text ones).It is a great read if you are interested in art and culture and history. If not, it could become somewhat boring as there is a lot of discussion in detail.The only drawback from the book is the print- The text is typed entirely in bold and it is somewhat hard on the eyes.

The book is not worth seeing. Printed in font size 9, hard and stressing for eyes to read. Images in black and white with heavy contrast and loosing the subtle details. In addition paper used very cheap not worthy to its price. Penguin has destroyed the very book on art by badly designed font, small and badly printed images and cheap paper. Its kind of cheating to the author and readers both