Questions for a Second Reading.
1.Berger's use of the word "history" always constitutes the relation and contrast between the present and it's past. He says that if we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past. "Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way." (p.112) Art is now a language of image. It is who uses that language and for what purpose that really makes a difference. If the new language of images were used differently, it would, through its use, confer a new kind of power.
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