The Voices of Silence (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Andre Malraux
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Art history and criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Arts
- Subjects: Art or artists, Creative process, Painting or painters, Sculpting or sculptors, Aesthetics, Arts or crafts, Museums
Critical Evaluation:
“Museum Without Walls,” the first of the four principal sections of THE VOICES OF SILENCE, defines the two crucial developments of the past one hundred years which have given rise to a new concept of art. These two factors, which permit twentieth century man to inherit the cultures of the past and to assess the art of these cultures with a new vision, are the advent of photography, which made world art accessible to everyone, and the eclipse by modern art of an aesthetic ideal which prevailed from the sixteenth century to the...
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