Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.'' But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. By now he has.John Berger (b. 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.born in Hackney, London. His novel G. (1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. If you enjoyed Ways of Seeing, you might like Susan Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.' It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace'Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time'Observer