On: Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

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Can you expand on that and point me at resources in this topic? Interesting.

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Berger claims we can know a lot about ownership and power based on paintings. That's not very well grounded in science.

Authors like Mulvey have taken this as fact and used it to make claims about sexuality.

And society generally believes this stuff, at present. That's my experience, anyway.

You could look to Laura Mulvey, Lynda Nead, Naomi Wolf, etc.