The Voices Of Silence
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Ex-library with usual markings; glue residue on endpapers. Binding condition: slightly shaky.
What does art say to us across the centuries, and why does its voice refuse to be silenced? André Malraux's monumental The Voices of Silence presents one of the most ambitious philosophies of art ever committed to the page, arguing that human creativity constitutes a triumphant rebellion against mortality itself. Translated by Stuart Gilbert, this sweeping work chronicles the entire sweep of world art history — from prehistoric cave paintings to the masters of Western modernism — uniting them under a single, audacious thesis: that art is mankind's most defiant act against fate. Malraux writes not as a detached academic but as a passionate humanist, and his prose pulses with the urgency of a man who has lived among revolutions and war. The Voices of Silence illustrates how the advent of photography and mass reproduction has created what Malraux famously termed the museum without walls, transforming the way civilisation inherits and reimagines its artistic past. Rich in intellectual ambition and lyrical intensity, this is a work that fundamentally challenges the reader's understanding of beauty, history, and what it means to be human.
Author: André Malraux
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Secker & Warburg
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Ex-library with usual markings; glue residue on endpapers. Binding condition: slightly shaky.
What does art say to us across the centuries, and why does its voice refuse to be silenced? André Malraux's monumental The Voices of Silence presents one of the most ambitious philosophies of art ever committed to the page, arguing that human creativity constitutes a triumphant rebellion against mortality itself. Translated by Stuart Gilbert, this sweeping work chronicles the entire sweep of world art history — from prehistoric cave paintings to the masters of Western modernism — uniting them under a single, audacious thesis: that art is mankind's most defiant act against fate. Malraux writes not as a detached academic but as a passionate humanist, and his prose pulses with the urgency of a man who has lived among revolutions and war. The Voices of Silence illustrates how the advent of photography and mass reproduction has created what Malraux famously termed the museum without walls, transforming the way civilisation inherits and reimagines its artistic past. Rich in intellectual ambition and lyrical intensity, this is a work that fundamentally challenges the reader's understanding of beauty, history, and what it means to be human.