Based on the BBC television series, Berger’s slim book dismantled centuries of art criticism in under 170 pages. The central insight — that how we see is shaped by what we know and believe — sounds simple until you realise how thoroughly it upends the idea of the neutral gaze. His chapters on the female nude, on oil painting as a celebration of property, and on publicity images as the successor to that tradition, remain devastatingly clear. The book itself is a visual argument, with its photo-essays speaking as loudly as the text.