Edward Lucie-Smith



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

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.

At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3.

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)