Malraux in a sentence

In 1948, Malraux married a second time, to Marie-Madeleine Lioux, a concert pianist and the widow of his half-brother, Roland Malraux.

A particularly important aspect of Malraux's thinking about art is his explanation of the capacity of art to transcend time.

Career Early years Malraux's first published work, an article entitled "The Origins of Cubist Poetry", appeared in the magazine Action in 1920.

Cate, pp. 86–96 On his return to France, Malraux published The Temptation of the West (1926).

During this post-war period, Malraux also published a series of semi-autobiographical works, the first entitled Antimémoires (1967).

However, both Gide and Malraux were undecided, and this may have been the cause of Sartre's disappointment and discouragement.

In contrast to the traditional notion that art endures because it is timeless ("eternal"), Malraux argues that art lives on through metamorphosis – a process of resuscitation (where the work had fallen into obscurity) and transformation in meaning.

Indochina In 1923, aged 22, Malraux left for Cambodia with Clara.

Jacques Soustelle succeeds Malraux as Minister of Information.

Malraux and his first wife separated in 1938 but didn't divorce until 1947.

Malraux argues that, while art has sometimes been oriented towards beauty and the sublime (principally in post-Renaissance European art) these qualities, as the wider history of art demonstrates, are by no means essential to it.

Malraux himself was not a pilot, and never claimed to be one, but his leadership qualities seem to have been recognized because he was made Squadron Leader of the 'España' squadron.

Malraux in a television program about art, 1975.

Malraux, L'Intemporel (3rd volume of The Metamorphosis of the Gods.) "What is a man?

Malraux's experiences in Indochina led him to become highly critical of the French colonial authorities there.

Malraux's works on the theory of art contain a revolutionary approach to art that challenges the Enlightenment tradition that treats art simply as a source of "aesthetic pleasure".

Malraux was an outspoken supporter of the Bangladesh liberation movement during the 1971 Pakistani Civil War and despite his age seriously considered joining the struggle.

Malraux, who believed he had acted within the law as it then stood, contested the charges but was unsuccessful.

The Musée Malraux houses some of his paintings : Waterlilies, London Parliament et Winter Sun at Lavacourt.

There are suggestions that Malraux's paternal grandfather committed suicide in 1909.