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Berger considered how through history and visual representation the male gaze has constrained women. John Berger's Ways of Seeing

How John Berger changed our way of seeing art

The Marxist philosopher, art critic and novelist popularised complex ideas and helped bring art into the mainstream.
Modernism is typified by a commitment to exploratory experimentation. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Edouard Manet (1862-63), Wikimedia Commons

Explainer: what is modernism?

I first came across modernism through the lens of postmodernism in the early 1980s. At that time postmodernism – explained here – was washing through the academy, promising to transform everything by placing…

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