Word: malraux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week the Toledo Museum of Art is displaying the first major exhibition of French 17th century art ever shown in the U.S. (see color). The show, billed as "The Splendid Century," was five years in the gathering, involved scores of French officials from Cultural Minister André Malraux on down, includes works from 50 French and U.S. museums. It opened in Washington's National Gallery, in March will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its final stop...
...face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal lives but perhaps to accomplish something more." What is that evasive "something more?" Poetry as religion, in the manner of Malraux's view of art? Poetry as an existential pacifier, good for stoics of all ages? Or has Playwright MacLeish now fastened on the poet that blasphemous tribulation he visited upon his Job in the closing scene of J.B. : the achieving of a self-made...
...METAMORPHOSIS OF THE GODS, by André Malraux. With impressive erudition and zeal, Malraux tries to elevate the world's great art to the level of religion. He is persuasive enough when he finds the "spark of the divine" in religious art, less successful when he looks for it in secular painting. But few art critics have ever been more fervent in uncovering the meaning behind the artist's intention...
...Metamorphosis of the Gods, by Andre Malraux. To Malraux, art is religion, and to support this view, he produces flights of brilliant speculation that course throughout all of art history; if he does not persuade the reader to worship, at least he helps...
...seemed a splendid idea to France's Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, Author André Malraux, to have the state pay retirement pensions for legitimate writers. Accordingly, Malraux went before France's National Assembly, asked for a 1961 pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition...