Essays
on
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André Malraux in a television
program about
art (1975) |
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‘The
artist is not the
transcriber of the world, he is its rival.’
Malraux, L'Intemporel |
Essays
on
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André Malraux in a television
program about
art (1975) |
Malraux and the theory of art Interview about Malraux Rick Visser from the weblog Artrift asks me a series of questions about Malraux and art. André Malraux and the Challenge to Aesthetics Concerns Malraux's two key works on the visual arts, The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The article is also available on the site of the Amitiés Internationales André Malraux. André Malraux and the Modern, Transcultural Concept of Art Examines Malraux's account of the emergence of the idea of 'art' in European culture from the Renaissance onwards, and the subsequent transformation of that idea, post-Manet, resulting in the modern concept of art which encompassed, for the first time, the works of all cultures. The analysis is based on The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The article was published in Literature and Aesthetics Vol 15, No 1, December 2005 (a special issue entitled Before Pangaea). Letter to Quadrant (an Australian
monthly) concerning an article on Malraux in
their May 2007 issue. Gombrich
on Malraux (a short exchange
on the blog 'elusive lucidity'.) |
 Vermeer, Lady weighing pearls (detail). ‘...her face worthy of Piero della Francesca’.Malraux, The Voices of Silence |
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Art and Time The relationship between art and time - the temporal nature of art - is one of the fundamental issues to be addressed in considering the nature of art. Is art 'timeless'? Does it belong within historical time? (It can't be both...) Is there another possibility? This issue is almost completely neglected in contemporary aesthetics (whether 'analytic' or 'continental'). The following articles, which are influenced in different ways by Malraux's thinking, address aspects of the question. Art, Time and Metamorphosis An exploration of the basic issues involved in the question of the temporal nature of art. Art and History: Taking the Past Seriously Examines certain arguments in contemporary aesthetics which marginalize historical and anthropological evidence concerning art.André Malraux, l’art et le temps Paper in French presented in 2005 at the Sorbonne under the auspices of the Amitiés Internationales André Malraux. It is also available on the site of the Amitiés Internationales André MalrauxNew. 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. Also discusses certain responses to this aspect of Malraux's thought - e.g. by Maurice Blanchot - and an attempt in 'analytic' aesthetics to come to grips with the question of art and time. |
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Malraux's first three novels |
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| Other issues Notes on The Art of Other Cultures Art and Freedom |
 Gudea, Prince of Lagash, 3rd Millennium BC |
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Links (includes a new Malraux site) |
Some painting
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