Walter Grasskamp on Andre Malraux
b'Andr\\xe9 Malraux, the French novelist, minister of cultural affairs, and art theorist, published his seminal book "Le Mus\\xe9e imaginaire" in the early 1950s. In "The Book on the Floor: Andr\\xe9 Malraux and the Imaginary Museum," art historian Walter Grasskamp takes Malraux\\u2019s work as a launching point to explore Malraux and his contemporary Andr\\xe9 Vigneau, the early history of the illustrated art book, and how Malraux\\u2019s vision for a \\u201cmuseum without walls\\u201d anticipated a new approach to art history that was comparative and global in scope. Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute, joins the conversation.'