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The two principal axes of inquiry are Malraux's ongoing quest for a dimension of transcendence within human life and, at lest as compelling, his search for the most appropriate and effective means by which to express a changing awareness of just what that dimension might be. Not surprisingly, in a world apparently doomed to languish in the spectral shadow of Death, there are certain constants: a yearning for some fraternity to combat man's essential solitude, a refusal to sink without effort into the vortex of the Absurd, a conviciton that life is to be lived fully and intensely. The human condition is what it is. The ways in which Malraux's characters, and of course Malraux himself, cope with this condition reveal a clear evolution, especially from the 1933 novel La condition humaine onwards. The reader follows Malraux from playful adolescence through the dichotomy of anguish and glorification in his middle years, towards the primarily interrogative utterances of the mature man. The often frivolous, sometimes sardonic, humour of youth gives way first to a painful recognition of the abyss, then to the discovery of a very tentative equilibrium in the philosophy of metamorphosis espoused by an older Malraux. André Malraux: Towards the Expression of Transcendence reveals the principal steps by which Malraux achieved that equilibrium.
Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. --- Malraux, André, --- Malraux, André --- Malraux, Georges André --- Mālrū, Andrīh --- Ma-erh-lo --- Maerluo, Andelie, --- ʻAngdrē Mānrō, --- מאלרא, אנדרע --- مالرو، آندره،, --- Malraux, André Georges --- Colonel Berger --- Berger, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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André Malraux was a major figure in French intellectual life in the twentieth century. A key component of his thought is his theory of art which presents a series of fundamental challenges to traditional explanations of the nature and purpose of art developed by post-Enlightenment aesthetics. For Malraux, art – whether visual art, literature or music – is much more than a locus of beauty or a source of “aesthetic pleasure”; it is one of the ways humanity defends itself against its fundamental sense of meaninglessness – one of the ways the “human adventure” is affirmed. Here for the first time is a comprehensive, step by step exposition, supported by illustrations, of Malraux’s theory of art as presented in major works such as The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods . Suitable for both newcomers to Malraux and more advanced students, the study also examines critical responses to these works by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Bourdieu, and E. H. Gombrich, and compares Malraux’s thinking with aspects of contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics. The study reveals that an account of art which Gombrich once dismissed as “sophisticated double-talk” is in reality a thoroughly coherent and highly enlightening system of thought, with revolutionary implications for the way we think about art.
Malraux, André --- Art critics --- Art Theory --- Malraux, André, --- Art --- Aesthetics, French --- Aesthetics. --- Aesthetics, French. --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- French aesthetics --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Psychology --- Malraux, André, --- Malraux, André --- Malraux, Georges André --- Mālrū, Andrīh --- Ma-erh-lo --- Maerluo, Andelie, --- ʻAngdrē Mānrō, --- מאלרא, אנדרע --- مالرو، آندره،, --- Malraux, André Georges --- Colonel Berger --- Berger, --- Colonel Berger, --- Ma-erh-lo, --- Malraux, André Georges, --- Malraux, Georges André, --- Mālrū, Andrīh, --- 1900-1999 --- Art critics - France --- Art Theory - 20th century --- Malraux, André, - 1901-1976
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Constante de l’œuvre et de la pensée de Malraux, l’architecture est aujourd’hui encore curieusement négligée. Qui se souvient des discours du ministre des Affaires culturelles en faveur des monuments historiques et des lois votées sous son impulsion, qui ont changé pour longtemps l’aspect de nos villes ? Oubli ou injustice, la chose est d’autant plus troublante qu’à en croire Malraux sa première réflexion sur l’art est née au spectacle du Sphinx, en partie enseveli sous le sable... Qu’il s’agisse de choisir les monuments à restaurer, délimiter le périmètre de protection ou déterminer le rôle de l’État en matière de sauvegarde du patrimoine, les questions abordées à l’Assemblée nationale et au Sénat n’ont guère perdu de leur actualité. À travers les enjeux politiques, financiers, esthétiques ou éthiques liés à la restauration des monuments, les débats parlementaires rassemblés dans ce volume offrent un nouveau repère dans ce qu’on a appelé « l’invention de la politique culturelle » française. Non sans ironie, puisque celui qui va laisser son nom à la loi du 4 août 1962 sur les « secteurs sauvegardés » avait été placé sous mandat d’arrêt en 1924 pour vol de statues et bris de bas-reliefs au temple cambodgien de Banteaï-Srey ! On ne plaidera pas pour autant la péripétie, préférant voir là deux versions d’un seul et même caprice d’enfant... Goût de l’outrage ? Assurément, non. Il ne s’agit, en somme, que d’une invitation à suivre Malraux lui-même. Qui ne voit en effet qu’à l’approche de tout monument – temple khmer, cathédrale de Reims ou château de Chambord – une seule démarche est possible, toujours la même, invariablement, celle de l’enfant. Juste rappel d’une leçon des Antimémoires qu’on avait pu croire oubliée : on dirait qu’ici non plus « il n’y a pas de grandes personnes ». Ainsi va l’enfance : la croit-on passée, qu’elle nous met aussitôt à son pas.
Malraux, André --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Views on France --- Aesthetics --- Urbanisme en stadsvernieuwing --- France --- Architecture --- Historic buildings --- Conservation and restoration --- Government policy --- History --- Malraux, André, --- Historic houses, etc. --- Historical buildings --- Buildings --- Monuments --- Historic sites --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Malraux, André --- Malraux, Georges André --- Mālrū, Andrīh --- Ma-erh-lo --- Maerluo, Andelie, --- ʻAngdrē Mānrō, --- מאלרא, אנדרע --- مالرو، آندره،, --- Malraux, André Georges --- Colonel Berger --- Berger, --- monument historique --- pitié --- histoire --- politique --- patrimoine --- débat parlmentaire --- architecture
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