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The book on the floor : André Malraux and the imaginary museum / Walter Grasskamp ; translated by Fiona Elliott.
Author
Grasskamp, Walter
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Uniform title
André Malraux und das imaginäre Museum.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2016]
©2016
Description
232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
N7483.M27 G7313 2016
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Subject(s)
Art publishing
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History
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20th century
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Photography of art
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History
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20th century
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Malraux, André 1901-1976
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Criticism and interpretation
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Vigneau, André 1892-1968
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Translator
Elliott, Fiona, 1951-
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Translation of
Grasskamp, Walter. André Malraux und das imaginäre Museum
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Summary note
N 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux (1901-1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musee imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that illustrated art book, and Malraux was one of its greatest champions. Drawing on a range of contemporary publications, he adopted images and responded to ideas. Indeed, Malraux's book on the floor is a variation of photographer Andre Vigneau's spectacular Encyclopedie photographique de l art, published in five volumes from 1935 on years before Malraux would enter this field. Both authors were engaged in juxtaposing artworks via photographs and publishing these photographs by the hundreds, but Malraux was the better sloganeer. Starting from a close examination of the photograph of Malraux in his salon, art historian Walter Grasskamp takes the reader back to the dawn of this genre of illustrated art book. He shows how it catalyzed the practice of comparing works of art on a global scale. He retraces the metaphor to earlier reproduction practices and highlights its ubiquity in contemporary art, ending with an homage to the other pioneer of the museum without walls, the unjustly forgotten Vigneau.
Notes
Translated from the German.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (page 207-223) and index.
Contents
The book on the floor
Thought transference
Imaginary museum and photographic encyclopedia
The layout of world art
Reception histories
Imaginary museusms
The museum as space of representation
Andre Vigneau
The floor as exhibition space.
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ISBN
9781606065013
1606065017
LCCN
2016010540
OCLC
947953932
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