%0 Journal Article %T La sculpture africaine dans les ecrits sur l'art d'Andr¨¦ Malraux %A Zarader %A Jean-Pierre %J Alea : Estudos Neolatinos %D 2011 %I Unversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro %R 10.1590/S1517-106X2011000200008 %X what happens with the sacred in our profane world? inspired by the mythical scene in which picasso, at the trocad¨¦ro museum, feels the magic character of the masks, malraux wonders about the agonic relationship between forms and forces. against the common perception which tends to see in the aesthetic a substitute for the sacred - which would lead to a closure in immanence -, perhaps we should, at the same time, refuse the illusion of empathy and affirm the unfinished character of the metamorphosis of fetishes into works of art - incompleteness designed by malraux by the terms of empreinte (imprint) or aura (aura). %K malraux %K picasso %K african sculpture %K museum. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-106X2011000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en