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John Berger's stupendous work: "Ways of Seeing" (Berger, 1973) forces us to look at art in a whole new light. Each painting, besides delighting the visual senses, now forces us to listen. The characters in the portraits tell a story about their physical and possibly emotional selves.

Berger illustrates his points through analyses of nudes: from the Renaissance paintings to magazine photographs. Berger opines that women in the paintings internalized their physical selves; they view themselves as spectators view them -- through the eyes of the spectators. As Berger puts it, "every one of her actions-whatever its direct purpose or motivation- is also read as an indicator of how she would like to be treated.

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" A painting of a man on the other hand, presents the character as one who can "do." A painting of a nude (or non-nude) man shows what he can or has achieved.

Berger maintains that art during the renaissance reflected the signs of the cultural times with differing (perhaps antiquated) views about sexism. Paintings and art were also different in western and eastern cultures. While western art placed women in a position of appearance, submission and being objectified, eastern….....

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