{"product_id":"about-looking","title":"About Looking","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the writer and art critic’s finest essay collections, which includes his influential essay on animal ethics, “Why Look at Animals?”; a critique of the “bourgeois sexual morality” of Rodin’s sculptures; and an unlikely work of criticism linking Francis Bacon and Walt Disney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berger was a thinker and writer of altogether extraordinary independence and range, an essayist, novelist, poet, and lifetime political activist whose work resonates with a voice that is as particular and personal as it is observant and reflective. Central to his long career was the experience of looking at and writing about art, and of all Berger's many collections of essays \u003cem\u003eAbout Looking\u003c\/em\u003e is the one that goes to the heart of his understanding of art and criticism and their complicated relation to individual experience, social life, and human history. \u003cem\u003ePaperback, 240 pages.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67925571961199,"sku":"76113","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/6368\/0098\/files\/ABOUTLOOKING_cover_jpg.png?v=1793223460","url":"https:\/\/shop.famsf.org\/products\/about-looking","provider":"de Young \u0026 Legion of Honor Museum Stores","version":"1.0","type":"link"}