Edward Lucie-Smith
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is an English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster.
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.After serving in the Royal Air Force as an Education Officer and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer. He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.
At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3. He was a contributor to The London Magazine, in which he wrote art reviews, and wrote regularly for the independent magazine ArtReview from the 1960s until the 2000s. 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 and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.
In recent years Edward Lucie-Smith has been promoting drawings attributed to Francis Bacon owned by Italian journalist Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino. However, Christie's, Sotheby's and the Francis Bacon Estate have not authenticated these works known as the 'Francis Bacon Italian Drawings'. Martin Harrison, the editor of the Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, does not include 'The Francis Bacon Italian Drawings' and does not see the hand of Bacon in these drawings.
Poetry and fiction
- A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems
- Confessions & Histories
- Penguin Modern Poets 6
- A Game of French and English poems
- Jazz for the N.U.F.
- Mystery in the Universe: Notes on An Interview with Allen Ginsberg
- The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, editor
- A Choice of Browning's Verse
- Five Great Odes by Paul Claudel, translator
- Borrowed Emblems
- Jonah: Selected Poems of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, translator
- Silence, poetry
- The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse, editor
- The Little Press Movement in England and America
- More Beasts for Guillaume Apollinaire
- Snow Poem
- Towards Silence
- Egyptian Ode
- Holding Your Eight Hands, editor
- Six Kinds of Creature
- Six More Beasts
- British Poetry since 1945, editor
- The Rhino with Ralph Steadman
- A Garland from the Greek
- French Poetry Today: a bilingual anthology
- Primer of Experimental Poetry 1, 1870–1922. Volume I editor
- Two Poems of the Night
- The Well-Wishers
- Joan of Arc
- The Dark Pageant
- One Man Show, with Beryl Cook
- Private View, with Beryl Cook
- Bertie and the Big Red Ball
- Beasts with Bad Morals
- Poems for Clocks
- Changing Shape: New and Selected Poems
Non-fiction
1960–1979
- Rubens
- What Is a Painting?
- Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live along the Mersey Beat editor
- Sergei De Diaghileff with Anthony Howell
- Thinking about Art: Critical Essays
- Movements in Art since 1945
- Art in Britain 1969–70 with Patricia White
- A Concise History of French Painting
- Eroticism in Western Art
- Symbolist Art
- Movements in Modern Art
- The First London Catalogue
- Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945
- The Invented Eye: Masterpieces of Photography, 1839–1914
- The Waking Dream Fantasy and the Surreal in Graphic Art 1450–1900
- The Burnt Child: An Autobiography
- World of the Makers: Today's Master Craftsmen and Craftswomen
- How the Rich Lived: The Painter as Witness 1870–1914
- Fantin-Latour
- Art Today: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism
- Joan of Arc
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Work and Struggle: The Painter as Witness, 1870–1914
- Outcasts of the Sea: Pirates and Piracy
- A Concise History of Furniture
- A Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century
- Super Realism
1980–1999
- Art in the Seventies
- The Story of Craft: The Craftsman's Role in Society
- The Art of Caricature
- The Body Images of the Nude
- The Sculpture of Helaine Blumenfeld
- A History of Industrial Design
- The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
- Nudes and Flowers: 40 Watercolours by David Hutter
- Steve Hawley
- Art of the 1930s: The Age of Anxiety
- American Art Now
- Lives of the Great Twentieth Century Artists
- The Male Nude: A Modern View
- Michael Leonard: Paintings
- American Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical
- Sculpture Since 1945
- The Self Portrait: A Modern View
- The New British Painting
- The Essential Osbert Lancaster: An Anthology in Brush and Pen editor
- Impressionist Women
- Art in the Eighties
- Art Deco Painting
- Fletcher Benton
- Jean Rustin
- Harry Holland: The Painter and Reality
- Keith Vaughan 1912–1977: Drawings of the Young Male
- Wendy Taylor
- Andres Nagel
- Alexander
- Art and Civilization
- The Faber Book of Art Anecdotes, editor
- Luis Caballero: Paintings & Drawings
- 20th Century Latin American Art
- Edward Lucie-Smith on Elizabeth Fritsch: Vessels from another World, Metaphysical pots Painted Stoneware, Bellew Publishing,
- British Art Now – A Personal View
- Fritz Scholder, A Survey of Paintings 1970–1993
- Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art: The Rise of Minority Culture
- Elisabeth Frink: A Portrait
- John Kirby: The Company of Strangers
- American Realism
- Art Today
- Panayiotis Kalorkoti, Reflections of Grizedale
- Visual Arts in the 20th Century
- Leonardo Nierman: 1987–1994 Painting/Sculpture/Tapestry
- Albert Paley
- Ars Erotica: An Arousing History of Erotic Art
- Dunbar Mining The Surfaces
- Glenys Barton
- Impressionist Women: Reality Observed
- Adam: The Male Figure in Art
- Chadwick
- Zoo: Animals in Art
- Lives of the Great 20th Century Artists
- Sean Henry – the Centre of the Universe
- Women and Art: Contested Territory'', with Judy Chicago
2000 to present
- Judy Chicago: An American Vision
- Flesh and Stone
- Sergio Ceccotti, Editions Lachenal & Ritter, Paris, 2001.
- Art Tomorrow
- Roberto Marquez
- David Remfry: Dancers
- Color of Time: The Photographs of Sean Scully
- Censoring the Body
- Byzantium & Beyond: The Paintings of Dave Pearson
- Amazonia Imagined
- Pop Expressionism
- Steven Heffer; A Very British Modernist
- Painting with Both Hands
- ''New Dimensions in Art