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John bergers5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.” “It reduced everything to the equality of objects. “Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations,” he wrote. ![]() Berger burrowed into the sexism underpinning the tradition of the nude the place of high art in an image-saturated modern world the relationship between art and advertising and, of particular importance to him as a voice of the British New Left, the way traditional oil painting celebrated wealth and materialism. Berger’s intention was to upend what he saw as centuries of elitist critical tradition that evaluated artworks mostly formally, ignoring their social and political context, and the series came to be seen as an assault on the historian Kenneth Clark’s lofty “Civilisation,” the landmark 1969 BBC series about the glories of Western art.Īmong many other subjects, Mr. ![]()
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