Élie Faure
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Jacques Élie Faure was a French medical doctor, art historian and essayist.
Élie Faure in 1900
One illustration from Élie Faure's History of art (1921): Cordova (8th Century); interior of the great mosque
Pierrot le Fou
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Pierrot le Fou is a 1965 French New Wave romantic crime drama road film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsess
Élie Faure
…Reflections on the Greek Genius," The Dial, Vol. LXXIII (1922). 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…
Theatrical release poster