Keeping A Rendezvous

by John Berger

2020-12-29 17:48:08

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflec... Read more
When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams.
With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous, we are given to see the world as Berger sees it -- to explore themes suggested by the work of Jackson Pollock or J. M. W. Turner, to contemplate the wonder of Paris. Rendezvous are manifold: between critic and art, artist and subject, subject and the unknown. But most significant are the rendezvous between author and reader, as we discover our perceptions informed by John Berger's eloquence and courageous moral imagination. Less

Book Details

File size7.97 X 5.2 X 0.68 in
Print pages256
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date October 27, 1992
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679737148
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John Peter Berger (5 Nov 1926 – 2 Jan 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include; The novel G, which won the Booker Pri...

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