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About Carmen Ghia

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Grad student trying to wean off short-form content

Carmen Ghia's Reviews:

Ways of Seeing

Vaccination Against Consumerism Pt 2.

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

October 3, 2026 by Carmen Ghia Leave a Comment

cbr18bingo: wealth (“Oil painting, before it was anything else, was a celebration of private property.”) If you are the kind of person who would enjoy reading a historical oil painting to filth; if you would like to understand why art museums are “like that”; if you have always been slightly confused by the (financial) system of worship so easily observed in art galleries around the world: Ways of Seeing is the book for you. Or, perhaps, this is the 4-part BBC miniseries for you. The miniseries memorably […]

Filed Under: Featured, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: art, cbr18bingo, Design, John Berger, painting, publicity

Carmen Ghia's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: art, cbr18bingo, Design, John Berger, painting, publicity ·
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Photo of front cover of Super Normal

Vaccination Against Consumerism Pt 1.

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary by Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison

October 3, 2026 by Carmen Ghia 4 Comments

cbr18bingo: craft Fitting, that my first reviewed book begins with a photo of a trash can. Fitting also, that the only book of substance in Foyles’ Interior Design section should be so slim and so plain. I only found this unassuming paperback after about fifteen minutes of rifling through glossy tomes. But perhaps that is fitting too: “when the student is ready, the master will appear.” At first glance, Super Normal seems like absurdist humour. For example, a photo of a plain blue bucket is captioned: […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Design, interior design, Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison, visualiser

Carmen Ghia's CBR18 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr18bingo, Design, interior design, Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison, visualiser ·
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