N 13123 André Malraux. Le Musée Iganinaire de la Sculpture Mondiale. La Galerie de la Pléiade 1952. 775 Pgs. 19x23cm. Encadernado
Description de l'article : La Galerie de la Pleide, Paris, 1952. Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 775 pages with maps and plates (some in color). Small quarto (9 1/4" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. One of numerous titles in the "Le Musee Imaginaire de la Sculpture Mondniale" series. There is now a large and steadily growing body of critical commentary on Malraux's literary uvre, including his very extensive writings on art. Unfortunately, some of his works, including the last two volumes of The Metamorphosis of the Gods (L'Irréel and L'Intemporel) are not yet available in English translation. Malraux's works on the theory of art contain a revolutionary approach to art that challenges the Enlightenment tradition that treats art simply as a source of "aesthetic pleasure". However, as French writer André Brincourt has commented, Malraux's books on art have been "skimmed a lot but very little read" (this is especially true in Anglophone countries) and the radical implications of his thinking are often missed. A particularly important aspect of Malraux's thinking about art is his explanation of the capacity of art to transcend time. In contrast to the traditional notion that art endures because it is timeless ("eternal"), Malraux argues that art lives on through metamorphosis a process of resuscitation (where the work had fallen into obscurity) and transformation in meaning.

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