GCOR111: Ways of Seeing/Fall 2001

GCOR 111: College Writing 1 Section 004
	Prof. Lori Landay
		General Education Department
		Office: 22 The Fenway room 34
		Office phone: (617) 747-2423
		Office hours: M & W 3-4, & by appointment
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		E-mail: llanday@berklee.edu
Fall 2001	M 4:10-5, W 4:10-6 Room 119 in 150 Mass Ave.
October 1, 2001

WAYS OF SEEING, John Berger
Main ideas:

chapter 1:
Reproduction of images has changed the visual arts forever: images are now like language; they surround us and are free and malleable
"what we are not saying" p. 30

chapter 3:
* remember this was written in 1972, and things have changed
surveyor & surveyed
"men act and women appear" 47
Nudes: classical, modern, modernist, postmodern

PBS page on Olympia			smaller Olympia

chapter 5:
The medium is the message: "The special qualities of oil painting lent themselves to a special system of conventions for representing the visible. The sum total of these conventions is the way of seeing invented by oil painting." (108)