Museum Without Walls

The Voices of Silence

by Andre Malraux

Translated by Stuart Gilbert and Francis Price

Secker & Warburg, 1967, black and white photographs throughout, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some creasing to covers, plastic covered, tape residue on endpapers, previous owners inscription on front endpaper (see photographs)

From the back:
“Volume 1 of The Voices of Silence
On publication in 1954, The Voices of Silence was instantly acclaimed by Edmond Wilson as “one of the really great books of our time”.  Now substantially revised and expanded by the author, with the same superb illustrations it wil be available in three paperback volumes.
In The Voices of Silence Andre Malraux undertook a complete reappraisal of man’s relation to his art in the light of the towering twentieth-century fact that ours is the first civilization possessed with the means to survey the totality of the “images which human creatively has opposed to time”.  It is the measure of his success that in the years since the first publication every important work concerned with ehe creative process has reflected the impact of M. Malraux’s brilliant breaking of new ground.  The first part, Museum Without Walls, has become part of the universal language of art.  Volume II The Creative Process and Volume III Aftermath of the Absolute will be available shortly.”