I was introduced to this book and writer in contextual studies tutorial. It was based on an Image Analysis essay.
From my analysis of the book, Berger is a strong figure of what art translates, its meaning, the connection and how we make a comment on what we see?
Talking about how galleries preserve this element of greatness where as a re-production of a painting has less on an effect when ts on you living room all, the meaning is forgotten and to the public its just a pretty image.
of paintings is no longer attached to them; their meaning becomes transmittable that is to say it becomes information of a sort, and, like all information, it is either put to use or ignored; information carries no special authority within itself.
Reproduction isolates a detail of a painting from the whole. The detail is transformed An allegorical figure becomes a portrait of a girl.
This book and the writer Berger is a strong influence in my work and how I connect with art in the future. It allows me to understand that technology is a good quality, and can be developed. But how it is can also damage some aspects of work an artist life in how it is re-produced.
