Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers

Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers (26 January 1876 – 3 May 1958) was a French writer, art critic, pacifist and anarchist.

Lacaze-Duthiers, an art critic for the Symbolist review journal La Plume, was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche and Max Stirner. His (1906) L'Ideal Humain de l'Art helped found the 'Artistocracy' movement - a movement advocating life in the service of art.[1] His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists".[2] Together with André Colomer and Manuel Devaldes, he founded L'Action d'Art, an anarchist literary journal, in 1913.[3]

He was a contributor to the Anarchist Encyclopedia. After World War II he contributed to the journal L'Unique.[4]

Works

References

  1. Joseph W. Peterson, Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiersm Charles Peguy, and Edward Carpenter: an examination of neo-Romantic radicalism before the Great War, MA thesis, Clemson University, 2010, pp.8, 15-30
  2. Lacaze-Duthiers, L'Ideal Humain de l'Art, pp.57-8.
  3. Richard David Sonn (2010). Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France. Penn State Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-271-03663-2. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  4. L'Unique (1945-1956)


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