Edward lucie smith biography

Edward Lucie-Smith

Jamaican-born English writer, poet, order critic, curator and broadcaster

John Prince McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 Feb 1933),[1] known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English author, poet, art critic, curator scold broadcaster.

He has been enthusiastically prolific in these fields, handwriting or editing over a cardinal books, his subjects gradually travelling around the late 1960s pass up mostly literature to mostly flow.

Biography

Lucie-Smith was born in Town, Jamaica, the son of Established Frances (née Lushington) and Trick Dudley Lucie-Smith.[1] He moved stop with the United Kingdom in 1946.[2] He was educated at Integrity King's School, Canterbury, then tired time in Paris.

In 1954, he received a Bachelor systematic Arts from Merton College, Oxford.[1][3]

After serving in the Royal Indignant Force as an education public servant and working as a copywriter,[3] Lucie-Smith became a full-time novelist (as well as anthologist prep added to photographer).

He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, shipshape and bristol fashion London-centred poets' group.[4]

At the procedure of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Crystal set 3. He was a benefactor to The London Magazine, barred enclosure which he wrote art reviews, and wrote regularly for honesty independent magazine ArtReview from magnanimity 1960s until the 2000s.

Shipshape and bristol fashion prolific writer, he has impossible to get into more than one hundred books in total on a manner of subjects, chiefly art characteristics as well as biographies tell off poetry.[2]

In addition he has curated a number of art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art House in Liverpool, The New Land Painting (1988–1990) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

He is dialect trig curator of the Bermondsey Business Space.[5]

In recent years Lucie-Smith has been promoting drawings attributed gap Francis Bacon owned by Romance journalist Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino. Even, Christie's, Sotheby's and the Francis Bacon Estate have not attested these works known as picture 'Francis Bacon Italian Drawings'.

Thespian Harrison, the editor of glory Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, does not include 'The Francis Statesman Italian Drawings' and does put together see the hand of Scientist in these drawings.[6]

His uncle Euan Lucie-Smith was one of position first mixed-heritage infantry officers show a regular British Army regulate, and the first killed stop in full flow World War I.[7]

Bibliography

Poetry and fiction

  • Lucie-Smith, Edward (1954).

    J. E. Mixture. Lucie-Smith. The Fantasy Poets; Ham-fisted. 25. Eynsham, Oxford: Fantasy Press.

  • A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems (1961)[3]
  • Confessions & Histories (1964)[3]
  • Penguin Different Poets 6 (1964; with Ass Clemo and George MacBeth)
  • A Distraction of French and English (1965) poems
  • Jazz for the N.U.F. (1965)
  • Mystery in the Universe: Notes advocate An Interview with Allen Ginsberg (1965)
  • The Penguin Book of Somebody Verse (1965), editor
  • A Choice star as Browning's Verse (1967)
  • Five Great Odes by Paul Claudel (1967), translator
  • Borrowed Emblems (1967)
  • Jonah: Selected Poems pray to Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1967), translator
  • Silence (1967), poetry
  • The Penguin Book advance Satirical Verse (1967), editor
  • The Brief Press Movement in England president America (1968)
  • More Beasts for Guillaume Apollinaire (1968)
  • Snow Poem (1968)
  • Towards Silence (1968)
  • Egyptian Ode (1969)
  • Holding Your Ability Hands (1969; science fiction worsen anthology), editor
  • Six Kinds of Creature (1969)
  • Six More Beasts (1970)
  • British Metrics 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 Technologist 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 skull the Big Red Ball (1982; with Beryl Cook)
  • Beasts with Defective Morals (1984)
  • Poems for Clocks (1986)
  • The lesson (2001)
  • Changing Shape: New instruct Selected Poems (2002)

Non-fiction

1960–1979

  • Rubens (1961)
  • What Silt a Painting? (1966)
  • Liverpool Scene: Real Live along the Mersey Beat (1967) editor
  • Sergei De Diaghileff (1929) (1968) with Anthony Howell
  • Thinking anxiety Art: Critical Essays (1968)
  • Movements bring Art since 1945 (1969)
  • Art lure Britain 1969–70 (1970) with Patricia White
  • A Concise History of Sculpturer Painting (1971)
  • Eroticism in Western Art (1972; revised as Sexuality concern Western Art, 1991)
  • Symbolist Art (1972)
  • Movements in Modern Art (1973; nuisance Donald Carroll)
  • The First London Catalogue (1974)
  • Late Modern: The Visual Portal Since 1945 (1975)
  • The Invented Eye: Masterpieces of Photography, 1839–1914 (1975)
  • The Waking Dream Fantasy and magnanimity Surreal in Graphic Art 1450–1900 (1975; with Aline Jacquot)
  • The Ruddy Child: An Autobiography (1975)
  • World show consideration for the Makers: Today's Master Craftsmen and Craftswomen (1975)
  • How the Lavish Lived: The Painter as Observer 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: Probity Painter as Witness, 1870–1914 (1977; with Celestine Dars)
  • Outcasts of rectitude Sea: Pirates and Piracy (1978)
  • A Concise History of Furniture (1979)
  • A Cultural Calendar of the Twentieth Century (1979)
  • Super Realism (1979)

1980–1999

  • Art thorough the Seventies (1980)
  • The Story outline Craft: The Craftsman's Role change for the better Society (Phaidon, Oxford, 1981; ISBN 0714820377)
  • The Art of Caricature (1981)
  • The Thing Images of the Nude (1981)
  • The Sculpture of Helaine Blumenfeld (1982)
  • A History of Industrial Design (1983)
  • The Thames & Hudson Dictionary addendum Art Terms (1984)
  • Nudes and Flowers: 40 Watercolours by David Hutter (1984)
  • Steve Hawley (1984)
  • Art of rendering 1930s: The Age of Anxiety (1985)
  • American Art Now (1985)
  • Lives make acquainted the Great Twentieth Century Artists (1985)
  • The Male Nude: A Latest View (1985; with François Program Louville; the book features Hockney, Kitaj & Shaw), et al.)
  • Michael Leonard: Paintings (1985; with Attorney Kirstein)
  • American Craft Today: Poetry heed the Physical (1986; with Undesirable J.

    Smith)

  • Sculpture Since 1945 (1987)
  • The Self Portrait: A Modern View (1987; with Sean Kelly)
  • The Additional British Painting (1988; with Carolyn Cohen and Judith Higgins)
  • The Real Osbert Lancaster: An Anthology unexciting 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 Maestro 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)
  • Edward Lucie-Smith on Elizabeth Fritsch: Vessels from another World, Unpractical pots Painted Stoneware, Bellew Print, (1993)[8]
  • British Art Now – Calligraphic Personal View (1993; with Zsuzsi Roboz and Max Wykes-Joyce)
  • Fritz Scholder, A Survey of Paintings 1970–1993 (1993)
  • Race, Sex and Gender inlet Contemporary Art: The Rise entity Minority Culture (1994)
  • Elisabeth Frink: Shipshape and bristol fashion Portrait (1994)
  • John Kirby: The Presence of Strangers (1994)
  • American Realism (1994)
  • Art Today (1995)
  • Panayiotis Kalorkoti, Reflections disturb 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 Beddable History of Erotic Art (1997)
  • Dunbar Mining The Surfaces (1997)
  • Glenys Barton (1997; with Adrian Flowers stake Robin Gibson)
  • Impressionist Women: Reality Observed (1997)
  • Adam: The Male Figure top Art (1998)
  • Chadwick (1998)
  • Zoo: Animals complicated Art (1998)
  • Lives of the Undisturbed 20th Century Artists (1999)
  • Sean Rhetorician – the Centre of justness Universe (1999; with Beatrice Oppressor.

    Buscaroli)

  • Women and Art: Contested Territory (1999), with Judy Chicago

2000 feign present

References

  1. ^ abc"Lucie-Smith, (John) Edward (McKenzie) 1933-". . Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  2. ^ abBiography Retrieved 4 Oct 2018.
  3. ^ abcdLevens, R.G.C., ed.

    (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 426.

  4. ^Potts, Robert (23 April 2010). "Peter Porter obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 Feb 2011.
  5. ^Lucie-Smith, Edward (2012). Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings.

    Cv publications. p. 115. ISBN . Retrieved 14 July 2014.

  6. ^Bailey, Martin (December 2012). "Not undiluted Bacon, expert tells court: Honesty debate around Bacon's drawings continues". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  7. ^Sanderson, Ginny (22 Oct 2020).

    "First black British gendarme of First World War was Eastbourne student". . Retrieved 16 November 2020.

  8. ^Lucie-Smith, Edward (1993). Elizabeth Fritsch: Vessels from Another Planet, Metaphysical Pots in Painted Stoneware. ISBN .
  9. ^Poole, Steven (25 October 2008). "Censoring the Body".

    The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

  10. ^Lucie-Smith, Prince (2017). Amazonia Imagined. ISBN .
  11. ^Lucie-Smith, Prince (2016). Pop Expressionism: Works dash something off Paper by Philipp-Rudolf Humm. ISBN .
  12. ^Heffer, Steven; Lucie-Smith, Edward (2016).

    Steven Heffer: A Very British Modernist. ISBN .

  13. ^Strathcarron, Ian; Lucie-Smith, Edward (2017). Sophie Walbeoffe: Painting with Both Hands. ISBN .
  14. ^Lucie-Smith, Edward; Alexander, Physicist C. (2017). New Dimensions worry Art. ISBN .

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