Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment in French radio and television or in state-run or state-subsidized theaters and films. Minister of Culture Andre Malraux (whose daughter and divorced wife were among the signers) was ordered to draft a bill denying state financial aid to any artist who signed the manifesto...
...Metropolitan had bought it, the French press and public were stunned. Who was responsible for allowing such a masterpiece out of the country? Was it the Louvre, the Administration of National Museums, or, as some reports had it, "some authority higher?" Angry Deputies peppered Minister of Culture Andre Malraux with questions. "Everything in this affair." protested Le Monde, "is exceptional, strange and troubling...
...France's Jean Fautrier, 62, who is represented in the show with no less than 130 drawings and paintings. A close friend of French Minister of Culture André Malraux, as well as adviser on Malraux's art books, Fautrier overcame his representational tendencies 30 years ago, is "freed from the limits of design" when he paints. Virtually indistinguishable from one another, Fautrier's paintings bear such titles as Bare Breasts, Landscape...
...emotional did the controversy become that Novelist André Malraux himself, the cultural grand panjandrum of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, solemnly promised the National Assembly that the treasures would be "brought out" some time in 1960. But where should they be exhibited? Malraux thought of the new industrial exhibition hall in the suburb of Puteaux, but the hall was obviously too far away for most Parisians. Next he thought of Paris' Grand Palais, but the Palais, which usually features automobile shows, household arts exhibits and the like, had had too many fires. Finally, Malraux hit upon...
There are a few flashes of wit ("Malraux is Hemingway grown up") and polemic ("the liberal temperament's besetting weakness is parochialism"). More typically, though, he writes of Thucydides n words that might have come from the Pentagon itself. Later he asserts that 'Tolstoy is a very large man. When we read him we too must enlarge ourselves." It looks like a very large 50 years for literature...