Word: andre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMER: THE DAWN OF ART (397 pp.) -André Parrot-Golden Press...
...Delacroix, a hundred years ago, had been shown the works illustrated in this volume, he would not have seen them," writes André Malraux in his introduction. "They lay outside his range of vision and, had his attention been directed to them, they would have seemed to him devoid of any esthetic value." Half a century ago, the civilization of Sumer was scarcely known; more important, the vision of even Europe's finest artists was almost entirely bound by their own tradition. It has long been Malraux's thesis that only lately has man been able to peer...
ADRIENNE: THE LIFE OF THE MARQUISE DE LA FAYETTE (482 pp.)-André Mourois-McGraw-Hill...
...schools that in successive waves have swept over Paris, but he can claim among his fervent admirers some of the most prestigious names in French art. One admirer is Pablo Picasso, who has a prized Balthus painting of two children in his Vallauris villa. Another is Minister of Culture André Malraux, who three months ago flabbergasted Paris by making the eccentric Balthus director of the Villa Medici, the home of the academy that France established 295 years ago in Rome in order to benefit from Italian models and taste in painting and architecture...
...André Malraux has gone so far as to suggest that Phaedra is not a tragedy at all. He calls it "a modern play, a drama of sexuality...