Essay Options

From Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Readers:

"For this assignment, write an essay explaining what, as you read Berger, it is that gets in the way when we look at paintings and what it is that we might do to overcome the barriers to vision (and to history)...." p. 134

"Write an essay in which you describe possible "approaches" to a painting in a museum, approches that could provide for a better understanding or a more comnplete "recovery" of that painting than would be possible to a casual viewer..." p. 135

DMC Studio

Want to create a multimedia presentation as part of your assignment?

Within the Digital Media Commons (DMC) is the DMC Studio which provides support for recording, digitizing, and editing audio, video, and image resources for a presentation.

Biographical Materials

Read about the life and work of John Berger or Walker Percy

Biography in Context

Primary Sources

Review question:  What is a Primary Source?

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, photography, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.