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crisis of imagination: vulcan in a smith’s apron
Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods… …In a sense this produces a crisis of the imagination. The Middle Ages knew the supernatural only as reality. Angels were no more surprising than elephants; if anything, medieval people knew angels … Continue reading →
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malraux: after the defeat of eternity
Andre Malraux wrote his Metamorphosis of the Gods over a half century ago, essentially showing how the spiritual in art was slowly transformd into the truncating and commodifying of eternity, idolatry, and the cult of celebrity and the man-centered universe … Continue reading →
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malraux: invasions of eternity by time
For whom the bell tolls. In the case of Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods, it was the Renaissance and Flemish art that took Giotto’s new world of pictorial fiction that placed the sacred scene within the world … Continue reading →
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malraux: art of pictorial fiction
Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods…The dawning Renaissance bids farewell to Eternity, dragons, and sacred art-Venus descends from Olympus to become a naked woman… Later ages, particularly the Renaissance, praised Giotto for his illusionism, his still relatively primitive, so … Continue reading →
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cathedral in the hearts of man
The Gods in Art. Andre Malraux traced the evolution of the deity in his Metamorphosis of the Gods a half century ago, and effectively traced the broad contours whereby the agnostic writer clearly delineated our ambiguous and often willing acceptance … Continue reading →
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the cult of mary; and along comes suffering
Andre Malraux sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art. His Metamorphosis of the Gods traced the evolution of the Gods in art. The demi-gods, the half eternal and the sacred art of … Continue reading →
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humanization of art: suffering mothers
The Gods in art. Andre Malraux’s fascinating The Metamorphosis of the Gods continues to fascinate. How sacred art of the ancients becomes reborn and transformed as Christianity evolves. Idolatry? … The humanization of art. In the waning age of Faith, … Continue reading →
gods in art: giant saviors
It was a daring venture of the intellect. Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods was a philosophical study that sought the key to humankind’s fate through a study of the world’s art… …The change begins when artists introduce men … Continue reading →
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metamorphosis: they begin to mingle
Andre Malraux was an agnostic who worshiped art, and whose private cathedral was that vast and dizzying intellectual structure he called the “imaginary Museum.” Jean Onimus once said of Malraux, “Malraux cannot resign himself to the Death of God. He … Continue reading →
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malraux: not properly speaking, faith, but some…
Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods. It was a daring venture of the intellect… …This Christ is not Jesus- or not yet. His message is love- but of a certain kind. Later ages, looking upon the figures of medieval … Continue reading →
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