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Art and the human adventure [electronic resource] : André Malraux's theory of art / Derek Allan

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Allan, Derek
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Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
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1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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Preliminary Material -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- English translations of titles of Malraux's works -- Introduction -- The Years before 1934 -- The Human Adventure -- Art: A Rival World -- Art and Creation -- The Emergence and Transformation of "Art" -- Art and Time -- The First Universal World of Art -- The Anti-Arts -- Art, History, and the Human Adventure -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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André Malraux was a major figure in French intellectual life in the twentieth century. A key component of his thought is his theory of art which presents a series of fundamental challenges to traditional explanations of the nature and purpose of art developed by post-Enlightenment aesthetics. For Malraux, art - whether visual art, literature or music - is much more than a locus of beauty or a source of "aesthetic pleasure"; it is one of the ways humanity defends itself against its fundamental sense of meaninglessness - one of the ways the "human adventure" is affirmed. Here for the first time is a comprehensive, step by step exposition, supported by illustrations, of Malraux's theory of art as presented in major works such as The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods . Suitable for both newcomers to Malraux and more advanced students, the study also examines critical responses to these works by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Bourdieu, and E. H. Gombrich, and compares Malraux's thinking with aspects of contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics. The study reveals that an account of art which Gombrich once dismissed as "sophisticated double-talk" is in reality a thoroughly coherent and highly enlightening system of thought, with revolutionary implications for the way we think about art.
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9789042027503 (electronic book)
9789042027497 (print)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.
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