| Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679737146 ISBN-13: 9780679737148 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 701.15 |
| LCCN: 92050073 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.21" W x 8" (0.5 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Booker Prize-winning author 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 Berger's eloquence and courageous moral imagination. |