André MALRAUX is preparing his work on art: The Imaginary Museum

André MALRAUX (1901.1976)

Autograph manuscript.

A page in-4°. Slnd [1946 or 1947]

Working manuscript, preparatory to his work The Imaginary Museum initially published in 1947 then reprinted, in 1951, as the first part of Les Voix du silence.

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Our art also represents what we cannot see.

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Valery. In a twilight light, the last jolts of agony of the powerful idea of ​​beauty.

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The art of the dead and the art of the living. The second did not undergo the metamorphosis.

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The romantic “Art World” rediscovers the dialogue of art with the unknown.

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We are not in front of the Museum but inside it .

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The questions that our art does not ask, because the M [worn]. I [maginaire] puts them in his place.

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It is the reference to nature that has made us blind to the problems of art.

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After the war years, Malraux's work turned resolutely towards aesthetic questions. Between 1947 and 1949, the publisher Skira, in Geneva, published: The Imaginary Museum , Artistic Creation , and The Money of the Absolute forming the three volumes of Psychology of Art. Revised and corrected, these works were collected in 1951 by Gallimard, under the title Les Voix du silence.