Élie Faure
French art historian and essayist
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| Intro | French art historian and essayist | ||||||||||
| A.K.A. | Elie Faure | ||||||||||
| A.K.A. | Elie Faure | ||||||||||
| Places | France | ||||||||||
| was | Historian Art historian Physician Writer | ||||||||||
| Work field | Arts Academia Healthcare Literature Social science | ||||||||||
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| Birth | 4 April 1873, Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France | ||||||||||
| Death | 30 October 1937Paris, France (aged 64 years) | ||||||||||
| Star sign | Aries | ||||||||||
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Biography
Jacques Élie Faure (April 4, 1873 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France – October 29, 1937 in Paris) was a French art historian and essayist.
Life
He was the son of Pierre Faure and Suzanne Louise Zéline Reclus.
Works
- Vélasquez (1903).
- Formes et Forces (1907).
- Eugène Carrière (1908).
- Les Constructeurs (1914).
- La Conquête (1917).
- La Sainte Face (1917).
- La Roue (1919).
- La Danse sur le Feu et l'Eau (1920).
- Napoléon (1921).
- Histoire de l'Art (1919–1921).
- L'Arbre d'Éden (1922).
- Cervantes (1926).
- L'Esprit des Formes (1927).
- Découverte de l'Archipel (1932).
- D'Autres Terres en Vue (1932).
- Mon Périple Suivi de Reflets dans le Sillage (1931). Critical edition by Juliette Hoffenberg, Seghers 1987, 10:18 1994.
- Équivalences (1951).
- Fonction du Cinéma: De la Cinéplastique à son Destin Social, 1921–1937 (1953, with a preface by Charles Chaplin).
- Méditations Catastrophiques (2006).
Translated into English
- Cézanne (1913, translated by Walter Pach).
- History of Art (1921–1930, translated by Walter Pach).
- The Art of Cineplastics (1923, translated by Walter Pach).
- Napoleon (1924, translated by Jeffery Eardley Marston).
- The Dance Over Fire and Water (1926, translated by John Gould Fletcher).
- The Italian Renaissance (1929).
Selected articles
- "Reflections on the Greek Genius," The Dial, Vol. LXXIII (1922).
Miscellany
- In the opening scene of Jean-Luc Godard's film Pierrot le Fou (1965), Jean-Paul Belmondo's character sits in a bathtub reading Elie Faure's Histoire de l'art to his daughter.
- In Henry Miller's novels Tropic of Capricorn (novel), Plexus and Nexus Miller speaks of Faure's works.
- Will Durant included Faure's 4-volume History of Art on his list of 100 Best Books for an Education.