1. Speculations and Frustrations - A Journey With John Berger
... Seeing" contradicts this, as demonstrated in And our faces, my heart, brief as photos. Berger argues, "The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost" (127). The authority that Berger is referring to is the ability of art to define one's history. He believes that a ... he imagined and saw them, had a deeply personal meaning, inextricably entwined with his desires and his instinct for survival. And it is by this, not by any art-historical logic, that his art is linked with the underworld" (131). Even when Berger is describing Caravaggio's technique, he is some...
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