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Edward Lucie-Smith

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Born: February 26 1933

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John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is an English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster.

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 is also a regular contributor to The London Magazine, in which he writes art reviews. 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.

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Edward Lucie-Smith

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Movements in Art since 1945: Issues and Concepts

Symbolist Art

Sexuality in Western Art

Art Today

Women and Art: Contested Territory

Latin American Art of the 20th Century (World of Art)

Ars Erotica: An Arousing History of Erotic Art

Joan of Arc (Classic Biography)

Lives of The Great 20th Century Artists

British Poetry Since 1945 (Penguin Poets)

Visual Arts in the 20th Century

The Thames And Hudson Dictionary Of Art Terms

Musée d'Orsay: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces

Art and Civilization

Art of the 1930s : the age of anxiety

Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century

Impressionist Women

Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer Vol. 1 - A Memoir of the Sex, Art, Salon, Pop Culture War, and Gay History of Drummer Magazine: The

Visual Arts In The Twentieth Century

French Poetry Today; A Bilingual Anthology