Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers

French anarchist writer (1876–1958)

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

• L'Ideal Humain de l'Art, 1905.
• Le Découverte de la Vie, 1906.
• Guy de Maupassant: son œuvre: portrait et autographe: document pour l'histoire de la littérature française, 1926.
• Manuels et intellectuels, 1932.
• Visages de ce temps: visages de mensonge, visages de haine, visages de fous, 1950.
• C'était en 1900: souvenirs et impressions (1895-1905), 1957.

References

1. Peterson, Joseph (August 2010). Gérard De Lacaze-Duthiers, Charles Péguy, and Edward Carpenter: An Examination of Neo-Romantic Radicalism Before the Great War (M.A. thesis). Clemson University. 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.
4. L'Unique (1945-1956)