- Camille Mauclair
Camille Faust (1872–1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic.cite encyclopedia | author = Shirlee Emmons & Wilbur Watkin Lewis | title = Mauclair, Camille | encyclopedia = Researching the Song: A Lexicon | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2006 | id = ISBN 0195152026 | pages = p. 303]
Mauclair was initially a
poet andnovelist . His poetry attracted some attention, and was set to music byErnest Bloch ,Gustave Charpentier , andErnest Chausson . His best-known novel is "Le Soleil des morts " (1898), 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of leading avant-garde writers, artists, and musicians of the 1890s, that has in retrospect been seen as an important historical document of the "fin de siècle ". [cite journal | author = Susan Youens | title = Le Soleil des morts: A Fin-de-siècle Portrait Gallery | journal =19th-Century Music | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | year = 1987 | pages = 43–58 | doi = 10.1525/ncm.1987.11.1.02a00030]Later in life he wrote mainly
nonfiction , includingtravel writing , biographies of writers, artists, and musicians, and art criticism. In his art criticism, he supportedimpressionism and symbolism, but disdainedFauvism , famously writing of the style, "a pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public". [cite encyclopedia | editor = Ian Chilver | title = Fauvism | encyclopedia = The Oxford Dictionary of Art | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2004 Retrieved [http://www.enotes.com/oxford-art-encyclopedia/fauvism from enotes.com] onFebruary 29 ,2008 .]He was also a cofounder of the
Théâtre de l'Œuvre .References
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