Edward Lucie-Smith

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator and author of exhibition catalogues.

He 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.

In an academic programme about pornography, he appeared naked while being painted by a woman artist. The purpose was to show how rarely this happens compared to art made by men where women are naked and men are clothed.

Works

* The Fantasy Poets: Number Twenty Five (1954)
* A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems (1961)
* Rubens (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
* What is a Painting? (1966)
* 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
* Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live Along the Mersey Beat (1967) editor
* 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)
* Sergei De Diaghileff (1929) (1968) with Anthony Howell
* Snow Poem (1968)
* Thinking About Art: Critical Essays (1968)
* Towards Silence (1968)
* Movements in Art since 1945 (1969)
* Egyptian Ode (1969)
* Holding Your Eight Hands (1969) science fiction verse anthology, editor
* Six Kinds of Creature (1969)
* Six More Beasts (1970)
* Art in Britain 1969-70 (1970) with Patricia White
* British Poetry since 1945 (1970) anthology, editor
* The Rhino (1971) with Ralph Steadman
* A Concise History of French Painting (1971)
* 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
* Eroticism in Western Art (1972) revised as Sexuality in Western Art, 1991
* Symbolist Art (1972)
* Two Poems of the Night (1972) with Ralph Steadman
* Movements in Modern Art (1973) with Donald Carroll
* The First London Catalogue (1974)
* The Well-Wishers (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) on Ignace-Henri-Theodore Fantin-Latour
* Art Today: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism (1977) US as Art Now (1977)
* Joan of Arc (1977)
* The Dark Pageant (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)
* One Man Show (1981) with Beryl Cook
* Private View (1981) with Beryl Cook
* The Art of Caricature (1981)
* The Body Images of the Nude (1981)
* Bertie and the Big Red Ball (1982) with Beryl Cook
* The Sculpture of Helaine Blumenfeld (1982)
* A History of Industrial Design (1983)
* The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms (1984)
* Beasts with Bad Morals (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
* Michael Leonard: Paintings (1985) with Lincoln Kirstein
* American Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical (1986) with Paul J. Smith
* Poems for Clocks (1986)
* 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)
* Changing Shape: New and Selected Poems (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

External links

* [http://www.kimpoor.com/ed-bio.html Biography]
* [http://www.librarything.com/author/luciesmithedward LibraryThing author profile]