Edward Lucie-Smith

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.

Biography

Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. He studied at The King's School, Canterbury, and after a little time in Paris he also studied at Merton College, Oxford.

After serving in the Royal Air Force and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer. He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.^[1]

At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3.

Works

Poetry and fiction

• The Fantasy Poets: Number Twenty Five (1954)
• A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems (1961)
• Confessions & Histories (1964)
• Penguin Modern Poets 6 (1964) with Jack Clemo and George MacBeth
• A Game of French and English (1965) poems
• Jazz for the N.U.F. (1965)
• Mystery in the Universe: Notes on An Interview with Allen Ginsberg (1965)
• The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse (1965) editor
• A Choice of Browning's Verse (1967)
• Five Great Odes by Paul Claudel (1967) translator
• Borrowed Emblems (1967)
• Jonah: Selected Poems of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1967) translator
• Silence (1967) poetry
• The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse (1967) editor
• The Little Press Movement in England and America (1968)
• More Beasts for Guillaume Apollinaire (1968)
• Snow Poem (1968)
• Towards Silence (1968)
• Egyptian Ode (1969)
• Holding Your Eight Hands (1969) science fiction verse anthology, editor
• Six Kinds of Creature (1969)
• Six More Beasts (1970)
• British Poetry since 1945 (1970) anthology, editor
• The Rhino (1971) with Ralph Steadman
• A Garland from the Greek (1971)
• French Poetry Today: a bilingual anthology (1971) editor with Simon Watson Taylor
• Primer of Experimental Poetry 1, 1870-1922. Volume I (1971) editor
• Two Poems of the Night (1972) with Ralph Steadman
• The Well-Wishers (1974)
• The Dark Pageant (1977)
• One Man Show (1981) with Beryl Cook
• Private View (1981) with Beryl Cook
• Bertie and the Big Red Ball (1982) with Beryl Cook
• Beasts with Bad Morals (1984)
• Poems for Clocks (1986)
• Changing Shape: New and Selected Poems (2002)

Non-fiction

• Rubens (1961)
• What is a Painting? (1966)
• Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live Along the Mersey Beat (1967) editor
• Sergei De Diaghileff (1929) (1968) with Anthony Howell
• Thinking About Art: Critical Essays (1968)
• Movements in Art since 1945 (1969)
• Art in Britain 1969-70 (1970) with Patricia White
• A Concise History of French Painting (1971)
• Eroticism in Western Art (1972) revised as Sexuality in Western Art, 1991
• Symbolist Art (1972)
• Movements in Modern Art (1973) with Donald Carroll
• The First London Catalogue (1974)
• Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945 (1975)
• The Invented Eye: Masterpieces of Photography, 1839-1914 (1975)
• The Waking Dream Fantasy and the Surreal in Graphic Art 1450-1900 (1975) with Aline Jacquot
• The Burnt Child: An Autobiography (1975)
• World of the Makers: Today's Master Craftsmen and Craftswomen (1975)
• How the Rich Lived: The Painter as Witness 1870-1914 (1976) with Celestine Dars
• Fantin-Latour (1977)
• Art Today: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism (1977) US as Art Now (1977)
• Joan of Arc (1977)
• Toulouse-Lautrec (1977)
• Work and Struggle: The Painter as Witness, 1870-1914 (1977) with Celestine Dars
• Outcasts of the Sea: Pirates and Piracy (1978)
• A Concise History of Furniture (1979)
• A Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century (1979)
• Super Realism (1979)
• Art in the Seventies (1980)
• The Story of Craft: The Craftsman's Role in Society (1981)
• The Art of Caricature (1981)
• The Body Images of the Nude (1981)
• The Sculpture of Helaine Blumenfeld (1982)
• A History of Industrial Design (1983)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms (1984)
• Nudes and Flowers: 40 Watercolours by David Hutter (1984)
• Steve Hawley (1984)
• Art of the 1930s: The Age of Anxiety (1985)
• American Art Now (1985)
• Lives of the Great Twentieth Century Artists (1985)
• The Male Nude: A Modern View (1985) with François De Louville (this book features Hockney, Kitaj & Shaw), etal.
• Michael Leonard: Paintings (1985) with Lincoln Kirstein
• American Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical (1986) with Paul J. Smith
• Sculpture Since 1945 (1987)
• The Self Portrait: A Modern View (1987) with Sean Kelly
• The New British Painting (1988) with Carolyn Cohen and Judith Higgins
• The Essential Osbert Lancaster : An Anthology in Brush and Pen (1988) editor
• Impressionist Women (1989)
• Art in the Eighties (1990)
• Art Deco Painting (1990)
• Fletcher Benton (1990) with Paul J. Karlstrom
• Jean Rustin (1990)
• Harry Holland: The Painter and Reality (1991)
• Keith Vaughan 1912-1977: Drawings of the Young Male (1991)
• Wendy Taylor (1992)
• Andres Nagel (1992)
• Alexander (1992)
• Art and Civilization (1992)
• The Faber Book of Art Anecdotes (1992) editor
• Luis Caballero: Paintings & Drawings (1992)
• 20th Century Latin American Art (1993)
• British Art Now - A Personal View (1993) with Zsuzsi Roboz and Max Wykes-Joyce
• Fritz Scholder, A Survey of Paintings 1970-1993 (1993)
• Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art: The Rise of Minority Culture (1994)
• Elisabeth Frink: A Portrait (1994)
• John Kirby: The Company of Strangers (1994)
• American Realism (1994)
• Art Today (1995)
• Visual Arts in the 20th Century (1996)
• Leonardo Nierman: 1987-1994 Painting/Sculpture/Tapestry (1996)
• Albert Paley (1996)
• Ars Erotica: An Arousing History of Erotic Art (1997)
• Dunbar Mining The Surfaces (1997)
• Glenys Barton (1997) with Adrian Flowers and Robin Gibson
• Impressionist Women: Reality Observed (1997)
• Adam: The Male Figure in Art (1998)
• Chadwick (1998)
• Zoo: Animals in Art (1998)
• Lives of the Great 20th Century Artists (1999)
• Sean Henry - the Centre of the Universe (1999) with Beatrice F. Buscaroli
• Women and Art: Contested Territory (1999) with Judy Chicago
• Judy Chicago: An American Vision (2000)
• Flesh and Stone (2000)
• Art Tomorrow (2002)
• Roberto Marquez (2002)
• David Remfry: Dancers (2003) with Dore Ashton and Carter Ratcliff
• Color of Time: The Photographs of Sean Scully (2004) with Arthur C. Danto and Mia Fineman
• Censoring the Body (2007) (ISBN 1905422539)^[2]

References

External links

• Biography
• LibraryThing author profile