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Publications - Derek Allan
- 'André
Malraux: The Commitment to Action in La Condition humaine’, French
Forum,
Vol. 6, No 1., January
1981.
- ‘The
Psychology of a Terrorist: Tchen in La
Condition humaine,’ Nottingham French
Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, May 1982.
- 'Finding
the Battle:
History and the Individual in Les
Conquérants and La Condition humaine’, Australian
Journal of French Studies,
Vol. XXVII, Number 2, 1990.
- ‘An Inhuman Transcendence:
Perken, in Malraux's La Voie royale,’ Journal
of European Studies,
Vol. 25, 1995.
- ‘Literature
and Reality’, Journal of European Studies, Vol. 31, Part 2, No
122, June
2001.
- ‘André Malraux and the
Challenge to Aesthetics’, Journal of European Studies,
Vol. 33,
Part 1, No 128, March 2003.
- ‘Art
as Anti-Destiny: Foundations of André Malraux’s
Theory of Art’, Literature and
Aesthetics,
Vol.13, No 2, December 2003.
- 'André
Malraux and the Modern, Transcultural Concept of Art', Before
Pangaea, New Essays in Transcultural Aesthetics, Literature and Aesthetics,
Vol.15, No.1, 2005.
- ‘André
Malraux, Art and Time: The Renaissance in a New Perspective.’ in Renaissance
Perspectives edited by Jan
Lloyd Jones and Graham Cullum. Melbourne:
Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006.
- ‘Art
Time and Metamorphosis’ - Introduction to a collection of essays
entitled Art and Time, edited by Jan Lloyd Jones,
Paul Campbell and Peter Wylie, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly
Publishing,
2007.
- ‘An
Intellectual Revolution: Malraux's Account of the Temporal Nature of
Art’, Revue André Malraux Review, University of Oklahoma,
Vol. 35, 2008.
- '"Reckless Inaccuracies
Abounding":
André Malraux and the Birth of a Myth', Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 67, Issue 2.
- 'An Intellectual Revolution: André Malraux and the
Temporal Nature of Art', Journal
of European Studies, June 2009, 39:
198-224. (An expanded
version of the article in Revue André Malraux Review).
- Art
and the
Human
Adventure: André Malraux's Theory of Art
(Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009). A
book-length study of the key ideas in The Voices of Silence
and The Metamorphosis of the
Gods. Includes an
assessment of criticisms of Malraux by writers such as Gombrich,
Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu and Blanchot, and comparisons between Malraux's
thinking and relevant aspects of 'analytic' aesthetics. (Amsterdam:
Rodopi).
- 'Ni
histoire de
l'art ni esthétique: Les écrits sur l'art
d'André
Malraux', in André
Malraux 13, Malraux et la question des genres littéraires.
La Revue des Lettres Modernes Série André
Malraux." (Caen:
Minard, 2009).
- 'The
Creative Process: An Aspect of André Malraux’s Theory of Art'. Revue André Malraux Review, University of Oklahoma. Vol 37, 2010.
Conference
papers
"Literature and Knowledge", at a conference
entitled "The Literal Truth: A Symposium on Literature and
Lying", Australian National University, 5-6 November 2002
"André
Malraux
and the Function of Art”, Sydney Society
of Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney,
June 2003
“Malraux, Art and Time”,
Sydney Society of
Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney,
October 2003
“André
Malraux, Art and Time: The Renaissance in a New Perspective” conference
on “Renaissance
Perspectives”, Australian
National University,
November 2003
“An
Aesthetic Revolution: Andre Malraux and the Modern Transcultural
Concept of Art”,
Second Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics, University of Sydney,
29 September-1 October, 2004
“André
Malraux and the Emergence of the ‘Anti-Arts’”, conference entitled “Critique
Today” at Macquarie University under the
auspices of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy,
December 2004
“André
Malraux, Art and Time”, Annual Conference of
the British
Society of Aesthetics, Oxford,
September 2005
“Malraux, l’Art et le Temps”,
conference at the Sorbonne
organised by the Amitiés Internationales
André Malraux, November 2005
“The Creative Process:
An Aspect of André Malraux's Theory of Art”, Annual Conference
of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Milwaukee,
October 25-28, 2006
“Art
and Freedom” at a conference on “Freedom”, Australian National
University,
July 2007
“An
Intellectual Revolution: Malraux's Account of the Temporal Nature of
Art”, at conference entitled
“André
Malraux and the ‘spiritual’ values of the 21st century”, Queen’s
University, Belfast
,
September 2007
“Art
and History: Taking the Past Seriously”, American Society for Aesthetics (Eastern
Division), Philadelphia,
April 4-5,
2008
“Malraux,
Art and Religion”, conference on “Religion, the Arts and the Creative
Imagination”, Heythrop College, University
of London, 17 May 2008
“Art, Time,
and Metamorphosis: A Revolutionary Aspect of André Malraux’s
Theory of Art”,
conference entitled “Aesthetics and the Aesthetic: Historical and
Contemporary
Perspectives”, Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Uppsala University, Sweden,
29 May to 1 June 2008
“Fiction
and Reality: A Way
out of the Impasse?”, conference on “Literature and
Philosophy/Philosophy and
Literature”, University of Sussex, 12-14 June
2008
"Neglected Affinities: Religion
and Art". Conference of Australasian
Philosophy of Religion Association, Canberra,27,
28 September, 2008
"Is traditional
aesthetics based on a mistake?" ANU Philosophy Seminar, 8 May 2009
"Eternity, History, or Metamorphosis?
– A Revolutionary Aspect of André
Malraux’s Theory of Art". Annual Conference
of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Denver,
October 2009
"Laclos
and the Dark Side of the Enlightenment". British Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, January 2010, St
Hugh's
College, Oxford.
"André
Malraux’s Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional Aesthetics". Hampstead
Authors’ Society, London, 4
January 2010.
To come:
“Les
Liaisons Dangereuses and the Dark Side of the Enlightenment”:
Conference Thinking the Human in
the Era of Enlightenment, Australian National University, 7-9 July 2010
“André Malraux, the Art Museum,
and the Digital Musée Imaginaire”: symposium Imaging
Identity, National Portrait Gallery in Canberra July 15-17, 2010.
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Standing Buddha, India. Musée
Guimet
Spirit figures, Vanuatu. Louvre

Aztec death cult
figure. British Museum
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