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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.








Standing Buddha, India.  Musée Guimet








Spirit figures, Vanuatu.  Louvre
 
 

 
 

Aztec death cult figure. British Museum