/2012/12/malraux-not-stung-to-austere-ecstasy/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.8 /2012/12/malraux-not-stung-to-austere-ecstasy/#comment-29216 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:38:01 +0000 /?p=76247#comment-29216 That is a very good point!( the rival world) One that tends to get neglected, since the typical inclination is to relate it to the individual’s world, that exerts a sense of power over his vast domain. thnx

]]> /2012/12/malraux-not-stung-to-austere-ecstasy/#comment-29113 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:00:47 +0000 /?p=76247#comment-29113 Malraux did not argue that “naturalistic representation is not art”. His point was that art is not fundamentally representation (naturalistic or otherwise) but the creation of another world – a “rival world” to borrow his phrase. Many of the artists he admired had a “naturalistic” style – eg Vermeer, Georges de la Tour, Rembrandt, and many more.

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