Berger considered how through history and visual representation the male gaze has constrained women.
John Berger's Ways of Seeing
The Marxist philosopher, art critic and novelist popularised complex ideas and helped bring art into the mainstream.
Thangka painters have an entirely different conception of art to most Western painters. What should art do for us?
What is art for? The answer to this question changes depending on who you ask – and ultimately, it will help us measure ourselves.
Modernism is typified by a commitment to exploratory experimentation.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Edouard Manet (1862-63), Wikimedia Commons
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…