Tag Archives: Georges Didi-Huberman

malraux: invasions of eternity by time

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

For whom the bell tolls. In the case of Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods, it was the Renaissance and Flemish art that took Giotto’s new world of pictorial fiction that placed the sacred scene within the world … Continue reading →

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malraux: art of pictorial fiction

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods…The dawning Renaissance bids farewell to Eternity, dragons, and sacred art-Venus descends from Olympus to become a naked woman… Later ages, particularly the Renaissance, praised Giotto for his illusionism, his still relatively primitive, so … Continue reading →

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cathedral in the hearts of man

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

The Gods in Art. Andre Malraux traced the evolution of the deity in his Metamorphosis of the Gods a half century ago, and effectively traced the broad contours whereby the agnostic writer clearly delineated our ambiguous and often willing acceptance … Continue reading →

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the cult of mary; and along comes suffering

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art. His Metamorphosis of the Gods traced the evolution of the Gods in art. The demi-gods, the half eternal and the sacred art of … Continue reading →

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gods in art: giant saviors

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Dave

It was a daring venture of the intellect. Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods was a philosophical study that sought the key to humankind’s fate through a study of the world’s art… …The change begins when artists introduce men … Continue reading →

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metamorphosis: they begin to mingle

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux was an agnostic who worshiped art, and whose private cathedral was that vast and dizzying intellectual structure he called the “imaginary Museum.” Jean Onimus once said of Malraux, “Malraux cannot resign himself to the Death of God. He … Continue reading →

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malraux: not properly speaking, faith, but some…

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods. It was a daring venture of the intellect… …This Christ is not Jesus- or not yet. His message is love- but of a certain kind. Later ages, looking upon the figures of medieval … Continue reading →

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The Gods in art-abandoning the kingdom of shadows

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux: The greatest mystery is not that we should be tossed by chance amongst the profusion of matter and the welter of the stars; it is, rather, that within this prison we are able to draw from ourselves images … Continue reading →

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return of the sacred

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

The Gods in art. Andre Malraux in his Metamorphosis of the Gods sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art… The return of the Sacred. Byzantium rises in jeweled gloom- the apostle pictured … Continue reading →

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parodies of divinization

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

… Greek art remained faithful to the divine so long as its people remained faithful to the gods. But when the old Olympians were “no longer gods of a religion but gods of a culture,” the ” ‘ makers of … Continue reading →

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