A conversation in 3 episodes between French novelist, art theorist and former Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux, TV personality Pierre Dumayet and American Professor Walter G. Langlois about themes connecting art from Antiquity to our time, filmed in June and July 1973 at Malraux's home in France. Followed by a fourth episode consisting of an interview conducted by Professor André Parrot about Sumerian civilization and Malraux's "Imaginary Museum", and filmed on May 23, 1973 at the Maeght Foundation.—bbmtl