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...John Berger's collection of essays Keeping a Rendezvous approaches writing as an act of love. Berger's innovative art criticism explores not only the artwork itself but also the participating role of the art observer and the act of love that conspires between the canvas and the viewer...
Unsurprisingly, Berger idolizes Walt Whitman, another writer-lover, for beginning the democratization of art. When art rejects elitism, it "achieves...a spontaneous continuity with all of mankind. It is not an art of the princes or of the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant." In this spirit, Berger spins his own stories...
...essay "That Which Is Held," Berger contrasts sexuality and love in their relation to art. Berger describes Sexuality, as a source of renewal, "forever unfinished, never complete; it finishes only to begin again, as if for the first time." Love, however, is aware of a whole, it permits the reflectiveness and perspective requisite for art; "the artist's will to preserve and complete, to create an equilibrium, to hold--and in that `holding' to hope for an ultimate assurance--derives from lived or imagined experience of love...
...Thus, Berger concludes, "sexuality is the antithesis of art, [although] love is the human model for both." Berger hails an art which is not subject to the "tyranny of the modern view of time," which out of fragmentation can replicate the "single synchronic act," the act of loving...
...line was moving and then it stopped," Berger said. "They literally closed the door...