Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers (26 January 1876 – 3 May 1958) was a French writer, art critic, pacifist and anarchist.
Lacaze-Duthiers, an art critic for the Symbolist review journal La Plume, was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche and Max Stirner. His (1906) L'Ideal Humain de l'Art helped found the 'Artistocracy' movement - a movement advocating life in the service of art. His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists".Lacaze-Duthiers, L'Ideal Humain de l'Art, pp.57-8. Together with André Colomer and Manuel Devaldes, he founded L'Action d'Art, an anarchist literary journal, in 1913.
He was a contributor to the Anarchist Encyclopedia. After World War II he contributed to the journal L'Unique.
Works L'Ideal Humain de l'Art, 1905. Le Découverte de la Vie, 1906. Guy de Maupassant: son œuvre: portrait et autographe: document pour l'histoire de la littérature française, 1926. Manuels et intellectuels, 1932. Visages de ce temps: visages de mensonge, visages de haine, visages de fous, 1950. C'était en 1900: souvenirs et impressions (1895-1905), 1957.
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