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Apart from being a politician, André Malraux was also a cultural thinker, which greatly influenced his actions as the first Minister of Cultural Affairs in France. By setting up the institution of cultural centres, he put into practice the idea of democratisation of the arts. Believing in the French cultural messianism and that art can be the meeting place of different social classes, he successfully...
In his speech at the opening of Cultural Centre in Borges, André Malraux put popular culture – embodied by television and cinema – in opposition to Culture, which helps people cope with the vision of inevitable death. Culture is here the works of art that, although created in the past, have survived and to which we can still relate. Because of the huge cultural difference that took place together...
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