Edward Lucie-Smith
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John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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]
[edit] References
- ^ Potts, Robert (23 April 2010). "Peter Porter obituary". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/23/peter-porter-obituary. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ Poole, Steven (25 October 2008). "Censoring the Body". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/25/lucie-smith. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
