Word: malraux
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...Frontier. In Montreal last week to reveal to Quebec the full extent of its spiritual and material inheritance were Minister of State for Cultural Affairs André Malraux and 130 top French businessmen and officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...
...arrival, Malraux made it plain that he found himself on a new frontier of De Gaulle's grand new France: "I'm not here to tell you what France can do for you but rather what France expects from you." Malraux humbly expressed "remorse for our past attitude toward French Canada," pleaded for Quebec to create a distinctive French culture in North America...
Heady Enough. In Paris there were stout denials that Malraux's words had any political meaning-only cultural and sentimental. But the sentiments were heady enough. At Montreal's city hall, a wave of emotion swept the crowd when Malraux declared: "I say to you, French Canadians, that we will build tomorrow's civilization together...
...place that, unlike France's many one-man museums, would be widely known and easily accessible. This was also the dream of his daughter ("my little dove") Isabelle, who has devoted her life to her father's work. A few weeks ago Minister of Culture André Malraux told her of the museum plan and Rouault's big place in it. Isabelle got her mother, brother, sisters, nieces and nephews to agree to the gift, biggest ever made to a state by the heirs of an artist...
...Lipchitz is a distant course but logical. From the lushness of Delacroix to the colored orchestrations of the Fauves is hardly a giant leap; and the abstract expressionists have claimed Turner as a father. In this one week, the world's walled museums are helping to build Malraux's museum without walls by bringing to millions at firsthand a cross section, however fortuitous, of the history of the last two centuries of art, and thus expose the ordeal of the artist himself. For the artist, said Rodin, "it is not thinking with the primitive ingenuity of childhood that...