John Berger obituary

Critic whose TV series Ways of Seeing posed questions about art and society, and a writer whose fiction reflected his life in rural FranceThe art critic, essayist and novelist John Berger threw down his challenge early in his television series Ways of Seeing. This came in 1972, the year when Berger, who has died aged 90, broke through to real fame from his niche celebrity on the arts pages of the New Statesman. Ways of Seeing, made on the cheap for the BBC as four half-hour programmes, was the f