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Drot, Jean-Marie – Two typewritten letters signed by Jean-Ma…
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89
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Drot, Jean-Marie – Two typewritten letters signed by Jean-Ma…
See original version (French)
Estimate
€20 - €35
Voluntary lot
Description
Drot, Jean-Marie – Two typewritten letters signed by Jean-Marie Drot, dated 21 August 1982 and 15 October 1982, followed by a typewritten text comprising two A4 pages entitled ‘A Metaphysics of Art’ - Two typewritten letters signed by Jean-Marie Drot, dated 21 August 1982 and 15 October 1982: “Once your exhibition project is at a more advanced stage, I think it would be interesting to explore with you the possibility of presenting it in Athens..”. Followed by a two-page typewritten text entitled ‘A Metaphysics of Art’: ‘With these thirteen films… It is the very opposite of didacticism: it is a metaphysics of art, and at the same time the aesthetic, philosophical and spiritual testament of one of today’s greatest writers, one of the few who has managed to use words to attempt an ‘approximation’—a sensitive, spiritual approach—to the artistic realm: Malraux, or the anti-art historian…’. Jean-Marie Drot (1929–2015) was a French writer and documentary filmmaker. He served as Director of the Villa Medici in Rome. He wrote more than a dozen books and directed numerous short and medium-length films, including *Le journal de voyage avec André Malraux: à la recherche des arts du monde entier* (A Travel Diary with André Malraux: In Search of the Arts of the World), a 13-part documentary series, and *Dialogue imaginaire entre Malraux et Picasso* (An Imaginary Dialogue between Malraux and Picasso).
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ID: 88412465
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