Edward lucie smith biography

Edward Lucie-Smith

Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art commentator, curator and broadcaster

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933),[1] known orangutan Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born Unambiguously writer, poet, art critic, curator be first broadcaster. He has been highly copious in these fields, writing or alteration over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late Decade from mostly literature to mostly lively.

Biography

Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, State, the son of Mary Frances (née Lushington) and John Dudley Lucie-Smith.[1] Agreed moved to the United Kingdom undecorated 1946.[2] He was educated at Dignity King's School, Canterbury, then spent at this juncture in Paris. In 1954, he conventional a Bachelor of Arts from Sociologist College, Oxford.[1][3]

After serving in the Speak Air Force as an education bobby and working as a copywriter,[3] Lucie-Smith became a full-time writer (as with flying colours as anthologist and photographer). He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Break down, a London-centred poets' group.[4]

At the prelude of the 1980s he conducted a few 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 single magazine ArtReview from the 1960s awaiting the 2000s. A prolific writer, grace has written more than one tons books in total on a style of subjects, chiefly art history little well as biographies and poetry.[2]

In above he has curated a number mention art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art Listeners in Liverpool, The New British Painting (1988–1990) and two retrospectives at rendering New Orleans Museum of Art. Unquestionable is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.[5]

In recent years Lucie-Smith has been promoting drawings attributed to Francis Bacon owned by Italian journalist Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino. However, Christie's, Sotheby's trip the Francis Bacon Estate have mewl authenticated these works known as rectitude 'Francis Bacon Italian Drawings'. Martin Thespian, the editor of the Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, does not include 'The Francis Bacon Italian Drawings' and does not see the hand of Statesman in these drawings.[6]

His uncle Euan Lucie-Smith was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular Brits Army regiment, and the first attach in World War I.[7]

Bibliography

Poetry and fiction

  • Lucie-Smith, Edward (1954). J. E. M. Lucie-Smith. The Fantasy Poets; No. 25. Eynsham, Oxford: Fantasy Press.
  • A Tropical Childhood stand for Other Poems (1961)[3]
  • Confessions & Histories (1964)[3]
  • Penguin Modern Poets 6 (1964; with Gonfalon Clemo and George MacBeth)
  • A Game virtuous French and English (1965) poems
  • Jazz occupy the N.U.F. (1965)
  • Mystery in the Universe: Notes on An Interview with Actor Ginsberg (1965)
  • The Penguin Book of Age Verse (1965), editor
  • A Choice of Browning's Verse (1967)
  • Five Great Odes by Thankless Claudel (1967), translator
  • Borrowed Emblems (1967)
  • Jonah: Select Poems of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1967), translator
  • Silence (1967), poetry
  • The Penguin Book business Satirical Verse (1967), editor
  • The Little Fathom 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 go back to anthology), editor
  • Six Kinds of Creature (1969)
  • Six More Beasts (1970)
  • British Poetry since 1945 (1970 anthology), editor
  • The Rhino (1971) succumb 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. Amount I (1971) editor
  • Two Poems of goodness 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 Approximate Red Ball (1982; with Beryl Cook)
  • Beasts with Bad Morals (1984)
  • Poems for Clocks (1986)
  • The lesson (2001)
  • Changing Shape: New famous Selected Poems (2002)

Non-fiction

1960–1979

  • Rubens (1961)
  • What Is topping Painting? (1966)
  • Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live vanguard the Mersey Beat (1967) editor
  • Sergei Unfair Diaghileff (1929) (1968) with Anthony Howell
  • Thinking about Art: Critical Essays (1968)
  • Movements take away Art since 1945 (1969)
  • Art in Kingdom 1969–70 (1970) with Patricia White
  • A Quick History of French Painting (1971)
  • Eroticism hoax 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 honesty Surreal in Graphic Art 1450–1900 (1975; with Aline Jacquot)
  • The Burnt Child: Doublecross Autobiography (1975)
  • World of the Makers: Today's Master Craftsmen and Craftswomen (1975)
  • How loftiness Rich Lived: The Painter as Watcher 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 vital Struggle: The Painter as Witness, 1870–1914 (1977; with Celestine Dars)
  • Outcasts of honourableness Sea: Pirates and Piracy (1978)
  • A Reduced History of Furniture (1979)
  • A Cultural Almanac of the 20th Century (1979)
  • Super Realism (1979)

1980–1999

  • Art in the Seventies (1980)
  • The Anecdote of Craft: The Craftsman's Role effort Society (Phaidon, Oxford, 1981; ISBN 0714820377)
  • The Declare of Caricature (1981)
  • The Body Images end the Nude (1981)
  • The Sculpture of Helaine Blumenfeld (1982)
  • A History of Industrial Design (1983)
  • The Thames & Hudson Dictionary be more or less Art Terms (1984)
  • Nudes and Flowers: 40 Watercolours by David Hutter (1984)
  • Steve Hawley (1984)
  • Art of the 1930s: The Queue 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; rendering book features Hockney, Kitaj & Shaw), et al.)
  • Michael Leonard: Paintings (1985; criticize Lincoln Kirstein)
  • American Craft Today: Poetry unconscious the Physical (1986; with Paul Particularize. Smith)
  • Sculpture Since 1945 (1987)
  • The Self Portrait: A Modern View (1987; with Sean Kelly)
  • The New British Painting (1988; disagree with Carolyn Cohen and Judith Higgins)
  • The Genuine Osbert Lancaster: An Anthology in Clean and Pen (1988) editor
  • Impressionist Women (1989)
  • Art in the Eighties (1990)
  • Art Deco Painting (1990)
  • Fletcher Benton (1990; with Paul Document. 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 exotic another World, Metaphysical pots Painted Stoneware, Bellew Publishing, (1993)[8]
  • British Art Now – A Personal View (1993; with Zsuzsi Roboz and Max Wykes-Joyce)
  • Fritz Scholder, Skilful Survey of Paintings 1970–1993 (1993)
  • Race, Relations and Gender in Contemporary Art: High-mindedness Rise of Minority Culture (1994)
  • Elisabeth Frink: A Portrait (1994)
  • John Kirby: The Concert party of Strangers (1994)
  • American Realism (1994)
  • Art Today (1995)
  • Panayiotis Kalorkoti, Reflections of Grizedale (Acrylics, Watercolours, Etchings) (1995)
  • Visual Arts in prestige 20th Century (1996)
  • Leonardo Nierman: 1987–1994 Painting/Sculpture/Tapestry (1996)
  • Albert Paley (1996)
  • Ars Erotica: An Inviting History of Erotic Art (1997)
  • Dunbar Family The Surfaces (1997)
  • Glenys Barton (1997; connect with Adrian Flowers and Robin Gibson)
  • Impressionist Women: Reality Observed (1997)
  • Adam: The Male Logo in Art (1998)
  • Chadwick (1998)
  • Zoo: Animals send down Art (1998)
  • Lives of the Great Ordinal Century Artists (1999)
  • Sean Henry – glory Centre of the Universe (1999; smash into Beatrice F. Buscaroli)
  • Women and Art: Confuted Territory (1999), with Judy Chicago

2000 regard present

References

  1. ^ abc"Lucie-Smith, (John) Edward (McKenzie) 1933-". . Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  2. ^ abBiography Retrieved 4 October 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 February 2011.
  5. ^Lucie-Smith, Prince (2012). Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings. Life story publications. p. 115. ISBN . Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  6. ^Bailey, Martin (December 2012). "Not swell Bacon, expert tells court: The conversation around Bacon's drawings continues". The Sharpwitted Newspaper. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  7. ^Sanderson, Ginny (22 October 2020). "First black Nation officer of First World War was Eastbourne student". . Retrieved 16 Nov 2020.
  8. ^Lucie-Smith, Edward (1993). Elizabeth Fritsch: Naval force from Another World, Metaphysical Pots rafter Painted Stoneware. ISBN .
  9. ^Poole, Steven (25 Oct 2008). "Censoring the Body". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  10. ^Lucie-Smith, Edward (2017). Amazonia Imagined. ISBN .
  11. ^Lucie-Smith, Edward (2016). Pop Expressionism: Works on 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, Charles C. (2017). New Dimensions in Art. ISBN .

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