![]() For this reason, Berger notes, her self value is measured through the manner in which she is portrayed, in her own eyes, in others' eyes and in men's eyes. The woman constantly imagines and surveys herself and by this her identity is split between that of the surveyor and that of the one being surveyed – the two rules that she has in relation to herself. He argues that as a result the woman is always self-conscious, always aware of her own presence in every action she performs. The sources of this identity are for Berger the age old notion that the woman was destined to take care of the man. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, Berger says, a woman's presence is always related to itself, not the world, and she does not represent potential but rather only her herself, and what can or cannot be done to her, never by her. The beginning of the book goes into the issue of how people now look at art versus how people in the past look at art and how reproduction has effected this. Berger argues that a man's presence in the world is all about is potency and is related to what he can do, power and ability. is an in depth look on art, the way people view it and the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day publicity. At the opening of "Ways of Seeing' John Berger notes that the cultural presence of the woman is still very much different from that of the man.
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