Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State: André Malraux, 56, novelist, art historian, one of France's most brilliant intellectuals. Malraux was a revolutionary in the 19205 and '303 (and relived it in his novels-Man's Fate, Man's Hope), but denounced Communism on the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, fought bravely in the resistance, became so disgusted by parliamentary paralysis after the war that he served six years as a De Gaulle lieutenant, has since concentrated on art and archaeology...
Others were convinced he was a would-be dictator (or fascist, as the cheaper.cry had it). His career belies the charge. Once, in conversation with Novelist Andre Malraux, his wartime propaganda chief, De Gaulle declared: "One usually ascribes to me one quality: intelligence. Then how can one suppose that I am so unintelligent as to want to make a coup d'etat? . . . The era of the coup d'etat is past. It is an anachronism which does not at all correspond to my temperament." During the war, stubborn as he was with allies, he freely allowed himself...
Every so often an administrative coup occurs in the art world in which some large-scale exhibition gets arranged, not according to school, cult, period, or what-have-you, but along lines of that universal artistic ideal which Malraux termed "the museum without walls." The old categorical approach is usually used, however, if not out of sheer inertia, at least for convenience's sake. For the current exhibition at Busch-Reisinger, however, the old method is most appropriate, for there are precious few canvases in the whole lot which transcend their particular philosophy, genre or gestalt...
...ultimate depredations in the destruction of conscience ("The very nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor place in the long shelf of disillusion, alongside the works of such better writers as Koestler, Silone, Orwell, Malraux. The fact remains that Big Brother's U.S. pen pal has a conscience that seems to work slower than most. In accounting terms, he might be described as LILO-last in, last...
André Malraux once defined the task of modern man as filling the void left by the 19th century's loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara...