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Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Seeing is never innocent; it is filtered through what we know and believe.

European painting and modern media often depict women as passive objects for a male spectator's consumption (the "male gaze"), transforming them into objects to be owned.

Traditional art history "mystifies" art by using intellectual jargon to hide the simpler, often monetary, reasons the art was created.

https://culturecounts.cc/blog/john-berger-ways-of-seeing-the-impact-of-context

https://hankystanky.livejournal.com/43914.html