Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays (Vintage International) - Softcover

Berger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679737146 ISBN 13: 9780679737148

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

Synopsis

In this powerful volume of essays, one of the most important art critics of our time reawakens us to the wonder and minifold meanings of the visual world as he restores the connections between art and the moral imagination. "Berger's mind travels the globe, and its range is astonishing . . . unfailingly interesting."--New York Times Book Review. 25 photographs.

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Review:

"One of the world's most influential art critics... and one of the most original of contemporary thinkers... Berger's ability to see something clearly, with fresh surprise yet profound understanding, makes his writing singularly moving and informative." -- Washington Times

"Berger's mind travels the globe, and its range is astonishing . . . unfailingly interesting."--New York Times Book Review.

About the Author:

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679737146
• ISBN 13: 9780679737148
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256