Keeping a Rendez-vous, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1992.

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 Rendez-vous , 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. Rendez-vous are between critic and art, artist and subject, subject and the unknown. But most significant are the rendez-vous between author and reader, as we discover our perceptions informed by Berger’s eloquence and courageous moral imagination.