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Aftermath of the Absolute
Malraux's structural-historical thesis (Part IV title and §V theme of The Voices of Silence): with the eclipse of religion as the West's organizing absolute, art itself has been promoted to the structural position the absolute occupies. Th…
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André Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, Resistance hero, and statesman (1901–1976). Author of Les Voix du silence (1951; English: The Voices of Silence, 1953), the three-volume Psychologie de l'Art (1947, 1949, 1950: Le Musée imaginaire / La Créati…
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Art as Revolt Against Fate
Malraux's cardinal closing thesis in The Voices of Silence: "All art is a revolt against man's fate" (p. 671). Across all civilizations, art's deepest function is to defend man against destiny — the masterpiece "tells of a human victory ov…
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Conférences en Europe et premiers cours à Lyon — Inédits I (1946–1947)
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) Year: notes 1946–1947 (composition); 2022 (posthumous critical edition) Type: notes (manuscript notes for conferences and courses)
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Metamorphosis (in art)
Malraux's central concept in The Voices of Silence: metamorphosis is a law governing the life of every work of art (p. 72). Works survive across time not by repeating their original meaning but by being recreated in each new vocabulary tha…
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Museum Without Walls
Malraux's coinage (le musée imaginaire, 1947) for the virtual universal collection that photographic reproduction has produced. The English title of Stuart Gilbert's translation of Les Voix du silence (1953) gives the phrase its anglophone…
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The Voices of Silence
Author(s): André Malraux (1901–1976) Year: 1953 (English) / 1951 (French Les Voix du silence) Type: book