Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie-Smith.
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933), known as Edward Lucie-Smith, 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 was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and, after a little time in Paris, he read History at Merton College, Oxford from 1951 to 1954.[1]
After serving in the Royal Air Force as an Education Officer and working as a copywriter,[1] he became a full-time writer (as well as anthologist and photographer). He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.[2]
At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3. He is also a regular contributor to The London Magazine, in which he writes art reviews. A prolific writer, he has written more than one hundred books in total on a variety of subjects, chiefly art history as well as biographies and poetry.
In addition he has curated a number of art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the New British Painting (1988–90) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.[3]
Works
- Poetry and Fiction
- The Fantasy Poets: Number Twenty Five (1954)
- A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems (1961)[1]
- Confessions & Histories (1964)[1]
- 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; co-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)
- Joan of Arc (1976)
- 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)
- 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 (Phaidon, Oxford, 1981; ISBN 0714820377)
- 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; the book features Hockney, Kitaj & Shaw), et al)
- 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)
- Panayiotis Kalorkoti, Reflections of Grizedale (Acrylics, Watercolours, Etchings) (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)
- Sergio Ceccotti, Editions Lachenal & Ritter, Paris, 2001.
- 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)[4]
- Byzantium & Beyond: The Paintings of Dave Pearson (2012; with Margaret Mytton)
References
- 1 2 3 4 Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 426.
- ↑ Potts, Robert (23 April 2010). "Peter Porter obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ↑ Lucie-Smith, Edward (2012). Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings. Cv publications. p. 115. ISBN 1908419466. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- ↑ Poole, Steven (25 October 2008). "Censoring the Body". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
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