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Élie Faure
Jacques Élie Faure (April 4, 1873 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France – October 29, 1937 in Paris) was a French art historian and essayist.
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One illustration from Élie Faure's History of art (1921): Cordova (8th Century); interior of the great mosque
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.[1]
Notes
- ^ Durant, Will (1933). 100 Best Books for an Education. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Further reading
- Flinn, Margaret C. (2005). "The Prescience of Élie Faure," SubStance, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 47–61.
- Ellis, Havelock (1919). "Élie Faure." In: The Philosophy of Conflict. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 68–79.
- Pach, Walter (1921). "Élie Faure," The Freeman, Vol. III, pp. 58–60.
External links
- Works by or about Élie Faure at Internet Archive
- Works by Élie Faure, at Hathi Trust
- Faure, Élie: Dictionary of Art Historians
- Picture of Faure
- Short biography and picture