''La Psychologie de l'Art'' (''The Psychology of Art'') is a work of
art history
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
by
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by P ...
. The book offers an explication of Malraux's philosophy of art via the history of Western painting.
It was originally published in three volumes: ''The Imaginary Museum'' (1947); ''The Artistic Creation'' (1948); and ''Aftermath of the Absolute'' (1949). In 1951 a revised, single-volume edition was published as ''The Voices of Silence''.
Stuart Gilbert
Arthur Stuart Ahluwalia Stronge Gilbert (25 October 1883 – 5 January 1969) was an English literary scholar and translator. Among his translations into English are works by Alexis de Tocqueville, Édouard Dujardin, André Malraux, Antoine d ...
translated all four books into English.
In France, Malraux's works of art history were touchstones of their time and were a major influence on
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Franà ...
, for one, in his own work of critical art history, ''
Histoire(s) du cinéma
''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' () is an 8-part video project begun by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1980s and completed in 1998. The longest, at 266 minutes, and one of the most complex of Godard's films, ''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' is an examination of ...
''.
[Witt, Michael: ''Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian''. Indiana University Press, 2013. page 5]
References
French books
Works by André Malraux
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