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 André Malraux in a television
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'On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.' André Malraux, TV program: Promenades imaginaires dans Florence, 1975. |
Essays on
Australian National University |
André Malraux in a television
program about art (1975) |
Malraux and the theory of art André Malraux's Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional Aesthetics (avec version française - e ora anche in italiano) "Reckless Inaccuracies Abounding": André Malraux and the Birth of a Myth. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 67, Issue 2: pp 147-158. Debunks the persistent myth, fostered by E.H. Gombrich and others, that Malraux's use of art history is unreliable. Also discusses certain issues at the intersection of art history and aesthetics. AbstractAndré Malraux and the Challenge to Aesthetics Journal of European Studies. March 2003, 33: pp 23-40. Concerns two of Malraux's major works on the visual arts, The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The essay argues that these works present the discipline of aesthetics as traditionally conceived with a fundamental challenge, and invite us to think about art in a radically different way. André Malraux, the Art Museum, and the digital Musée Imaginaire. A brief paper on this topic. An entry on André Malraux's theory of art in the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics published by OUP. The
Death of Beauty : Goya’s Etchings and Black Paintings through the Eyes
of André Malraux Art and Time The general relationship between art and the passing of time is a crucial aspect of the nature of art, but one that is almost completely neglected in contemporary aesthetics (whether 'analytic' or 'continental'). These items address key aspects of the question: Analytic Aesthetics and the Dilemma of Timelessness. A paper presented to a seminar in the ANU School of Philosophy, 11 November 2014.Time: The Forgotten Dimension of Art. Discusses key questions to be asked about the temporal nature of art, and explains why they need to be asked. An intellectual revolution: André Malraux and the temporal nature of art. Journal of European Studies. 2009, 39: 198-224. Explains Malraux's revolutionary understanding of the relationship between art and time - the notion of metamorphosis. Also discusses certain responses to this aspect of Malraux's thought - e.g. by Maurice Blanchot - and an (unsuccessful) attempt in 'analytic' aesthetics to come to grips with the issue of art and time. Art and History: Taking the Past Seriously Examines certain arguments in contemporary aesthetics that marginalize historical and anthropological evidence concerning art. André Malraux, l’art et le temps. A paper delivered at a seminar on Malraux at the Sorbonne. What the question of art and time is not about. Comments on some potentially misleading ideas. NEW: “Malraux,
l’art et le temps : Un défi à l’esthétique traditionnelle" in
Malraux et le temps, La Revue des lettres modernes. Série: André
Malraux, n° 14,
Classiques Garnier ,
2018. ART AND TIME This book explores ideas I have outlined in various articles and conference papers, and in my book on Malraux. It traces the important, if sorely neglected, history of the topic of art and time in Western culture and considers the positions, express or implied, of a number of modern theorists of art such as Adorno, Sartre, Benjamin and contemporary writers in 'analytic' aesthetics.  The publisher's page
gives a link to a pdf of the Contents and early
pages. The book includes 9
illustrations.
(avec version française)
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For the first
time, a comprehensive, step by step exposition of Malraux’s theory of
art as presented in The Voices of Silence and The
Metamorphosis of the Gods. 30 illustrations, 23 in colour. Extracts from a review
of Art and the Human Adventure*:
A review
in The Burlington
Magazine (June 2011): "a commendable analysis of
Malraux's texts ... [examines] his notions of artistic creativity,
time, history and cultural exchange in relation to art... a thorough
and illuminating exposition of the thought of this unjustly neglected
figure".
Comments on Art and Time in the
Australasian
Journal of Philosophy
"Derek Allan’s accomplished and insightful book tackles a philosophical problem that has been neglected in contemporary aesthetics: the relationship between art and time… One admirable feature of Allan’s book is that it is well versed in art history and the history of aesthetics… Art and Time is a well-researched, elegantly written, and lucidly argued book. It explores a problem that has been neglected within contemporary aesthetics, offering a suggestive theoretical response to the problem of art’s relationship to time... [It makes] a welcome contribution to broadening the often parochial, ahistorical character of contemporary aesthetic debates."
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Miscellaneous New: Why art is never representation (even when it represents). “Goya and
the Dark Side of the Enlightenment”, a paper delivered at a
conference entitled Rethinking
the Enlightenment at Deakin University, Melbourne A logical redeemer: Kirillov in Dostoevsky’s Demons The Power of an Idea: Raskolnikov in 'Crime and Punishment'. Literary Imagination (2016) doi: 10.1093/litimag/imw015 Les Liaisons dangereuses through the eyes of André Malraux. Journal of European Studies. June 2012.Myths about Malraux's Theory of Art.André Malraux wrote to a friend in 1973: "Of all my books, those I’ve written about art are certainly the ones that have been most seriously misunderstood." This page comments on some of the more common misundertandings. Is aesthetics based on a mistake? Argues that aesthetics remains straightjacketed in a conception of art inherited from the eighteenth century and that it now hinders our understanding of art. Art and Freedom Is there any intrinsic relationship between art and freedom – and if so what kind of freedom might that be? Art and "the real world". A conference paper. Letter to Quadrant (an Australian monthly) concerning an article on Malraux in their May 2007 issue. Art and the Metaphysical - A Challenge to Aesthetic Orthodoxy A conference paper. Creation ex nihilo: André Malraux and the Concept of Artistic Creation |
 Goya. Old People Eating “If the words art and beauty had the same
meaning, Goya would not be an artist.” André Malraux. |
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Some
painting and sculpture I like:
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