Ways Of Seeing

Reading John Berger's Marxist critique of the western tradition of oil painting makes me want to go out and torch the art galleries.

And then I remember an academic friend of mine (not a Marxist- but similarly in the grip of a world-view) confessing that the habit of deconstructing art works meant he couldn't enjoy them any more-and this makes me want to go out and burn down the universities instead.

Odi