Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French writer
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Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About 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.
- His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists".
- Together with André Colomer and Manuel Devaldes, he founded L'Action d'Art, an anarchist literary journal, in 1913.He was a contributor to the Anarchist Encyclopedia.
- After World War II he contributed to the journal L'Unique.
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