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In what year did Berger's Ways of Seeing appear?
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- Early 1970s, as a BBC series and a book.
- 1972.
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1972 (answers within ±2 count)
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1972, as a four-part BBC series and then a book. The television form matters: the argument reached an audience far beyond art history, which is a large part of why "the male gaze" entered general usage.
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