by André Malraux · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070329489
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Le Musée Imaginaire is an essay by the French writer André Malraux, published in 1947. In this text, Malraux explores the idea of a museum without walls, accessible through photographic reproduction of works of art. The author reflects on how the availability of images transforms our perception of art and culture, allowing us to create our own personal collections and establish new connections between works from different eras and cultures. This book is a reflection on aesthetics, art history, and the human condition.
Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).
