blakegopnik:ANDRE MALRAUX DATES THE ORIGINS OF ALL THE WORLD’S ART … TO SOME TIME AROUND 1950THE DAI
blakegopnik:ANDRE MALRAUX DATES THE ORIGINS OF ALL THE WORLD’S ART … TO SOME TIME AROUND 1950THE DAILY PIC: This is Maurice Jarnoux’s 1953 shot of André Malraux, at work on his famous Museum Without Walls. I have to admit it’s the Malraux book, and not the fine Jarnoux photo, that has me excited. I’d never read it until this morning, but it is full (especially in its first third) of amazingly smart stuff on the tremendous artificiality of our notion of museum-worthy “art,” and on how little that has to do with how most museum artifacts functioned when they were made. Malraux insists that our notion of art was created, almost from scratch, to serve our very peculiar modern needs, and that this modern creation was shaped by the technologies that put artifacts from the entire world before our eyes in vast numbers, shrinking huge temples to the size of a page. And Malraux didn’t even know about Google or Instagram, or how they’d deliver the world’s “art” to our palm-sized screens.For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. -- source link