Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
Plush Exile. Then, last month, Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux appointed Marcel Landowski, a composer of conservative persuasion and little renown, as the ministry's director of music. Boulez hit the ceiling, canceled all future government-connected engagements in France and fired off a scathing letter, which was published in the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. He accused Malraux of jeopardizing France's musical future, called the Landowski appointment "badly thought out, irresponsible and illogical." Malraux, he charged, should understand "that music is a matter sufficiently important not to have it put into the hands of feebleminded and incompetent...
...Germany's young expressionist Horst Antes, who mashes anatomy into a strudel of bright colors. Actually, in sculpture at least, the laurels were split between two rather conservative choices: Etienne Martin, 53, of France, who was rumored to have received a helping hand from Culture Minister Andre Malraux, and Robert Jacobsen, 54, of Denmark, who makes Model A abstractions in wood, stone and iron...
Because the Grand Trianon was used more for affairs of the heart than of state, it has featured little in history, and since 1963, has been closed even as a museum. The reason was not government indifference. Charles de Gaulle and his Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux, had quietly decided between them that it was time for the Grand Trianon to stage a royal comeback, this time as a museum and guest house where De Gaulle could feast and confer with visiting heads of state...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...