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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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The Gods in art-abandoning the kingdom of shadows

Andre Malraux: The greatest mystery is not that we should be tossed by chance amongst the profusion of matter and the welter of the stars; it is, rather, that within this prison we are able to draw from ourselves images … Continue reading

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