Camille Mauclair
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Camille Faust (1872–1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic.[1]
Mauclair was initially a poet and novelist. His poetry attracted some attention, and was set to music by Ernest Bloch, Gustave Charpentier, and Ernest Chausson.[1] His best-known novel is Le Soleil des morts (1898),[1] a roman à clef containing fictionalized portraits of leading avant-garde writers, artists, and musicians of the 1890s, that has in retrospect been seen as an important historical document of the fin de siècle.[2]
Later in life he wrote mainly nonfiction, including travel writing, biographies of writers, artists, and musicians, and art criticism. In his art criticism, he supported impressionism and symbolism,[1] but disdained Fauvism, famously writing of the style, "a pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public".[3]
He was also a cofounder of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Shirlee Emmons & Wilbur Watkin Lewis (2006). "Mauclair, Camille". Researching the Song: A Lexicon. Oxford University Press. p. 303. ISBN 0195152026.
- ^ Susan Youens (1987). "Le Soleil des morts: A Fin-de-siècle Portrait Gallery". 19th-Century Music 11 (1): 43–58. doi:.
- ^ "Fauvism". The Oxford Dictionary of Art. (2004). Ed. Ian Chilver. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from enotes.com on February 29, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Works by Camille Mauclair at Project Gutenberg
- Camille Mauclair in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
