Essays
on
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André Malraux in a television
program about
art (1975) |
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‘Great artists are not
transcribers of the world, they are its
rivals.’
Malraux, The Voices of Silence |
Essays
on
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André Malraux in a television
program about
art (1975) |
Malraux and the theory of art New: André
Malraux's Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional Aesthetics (avec
version française) 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. 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'.) Art and Time The relationship between art and time - the temporal nature of art - is a key issues to be addressed in considering the nature of art, but the 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. 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. Abstract 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.
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| Malraux's first three novels |   |
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... it is crucial to recognise that the concept of ‘reality’, ‘the real world’ etc must not be left in a conceptual limbo and waved away with cursory phrases such as ‘the world around us’, ‘the actual world’, ‘the rest of the world in which aesthetics objects exist’, or ‘the great world’. |
| Other issues Notes on The Art of Other Cultures Art and Freedom |
 Pharaoh Sesostris III, c 1850 BC. Louvre |
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Some painting
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