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Description: André Malraux and his Imaginary Museum

TitleAndré Malraux and his Imaginary Museum

Creator nameJarnoux, Maurice

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1954

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationParis Match Archive, Getty Images

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPortrait photography--FranceAuthors, FrenchArt--Collectors and collecting

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Chapter 2: Afro-Modernism’s Musée Imaginaire

Kobena Mercer

Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

In 1940 Locke published The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. The first section, “The Negro as Artist,” sets the achievements of African American artists in world-historical context...

Author

Kobena Mercer

PublisherYale University Press

PublisherHutchins Center for African & African American Research

Related print edition pages: pp.93-151

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00339.3

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23240&redirecttoanchor=91244

Chapter subject tags:Locke, Alain, 1885-1954Artists, BlackAfrican American artistsArt criticism--United States--History--20th centuryBlack people--Race identityArt, African--20th century--ExhibitionsCultural relations

3. The Poetics of Plaster

Mari Lending

Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction

~In Brussels, a lofty room furnished with simple wooden shelves from floor to ceiling is completely filled with broken fragments. All kinds of associations spring to mind, from natural disasters and phantasmagoric ruins to large-scale contemporary art installations with archival inclinations. In the somber daylight falling from a...

Author

Mari Lending

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.106-143

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00311.4

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22556&redirecttoanchor=91244

Chapter subject tags:Architectural castsPlaster castsArt--Reproduction--Social aspectsArchitectural museums--HistoryMetropolitan Museum of ArtAuthenticity (Philosophy) in the artsBritish MuseumAngkor Wat (Angkor)Architectural photography--HistoryPhotography--History--19th centuryParthenon (Athens, Greece)Architectural modelsArchitecture, Roman

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