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malraux: membership for all

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Dave

What stamped Andre Malraux’s work as extraordinary was his intensity. When he wrote about a statue, one has a vision of Malraux standing before it with a burning determination that this piece of stone must yield its secrets to him. … Continue reading →

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malraux: buchenwald of the plastic arts?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Dave

Achievement and failure. Andre Malraux arrayed all art beneath a soaring arch of philosophical vision…but the philosopher is left seekingsalvation in the aesthetic “World Beyond,” … Thus Malraux. At this point he abruptly concludes  La Metamorphose des Dieux. His account … Continue reading →

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malraux: venus as rival of the virgin

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Dave

The end of feudalism, the waning of intense religious fervor,  and the beginning of the bourgeois values and cycles of consumerism changed everything. Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods. Its not hard to follow the slippery slope from … Continue reading →

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