| Description |
1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Faux titre ; 341
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Faux titre ; no. 341.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- English translations of titles of Malraux's works -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Years before 1934 -- Chapter 2: The Human Adventure -- Chapter 3: Art: A Rival World -- Chapter 4: Art and Creation -- Chapter 5: The Emergence and Transformation of "Art" -- Chapter 6: Art and Time -- Chapter 7: The First Universal World of Art -- Chapter 8: The Anti-Arts -- Chapter 9. Art, History, and the Human Adventure -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Malraux, André, 1901-1976 -- Aesthetics.
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Malraux, André, 1901-1976. |
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Aesthetics. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Aesthetics, French -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, French. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Allan, Derek. Art and the human adventure. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009 9789042027497 (OCoLC)475864373 |
| ISBN |
9789042027503 (electronic book) |
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9042027509 (electronic book) |
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1282882139 |
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9781282882133 |
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9789042027497 |
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