John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933),[1] known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late 1960s from mostly literature to mostly art.
Edward Lucie-Smith
Born
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (1933-02-27) February 27, 1933 (age 91) Kingston, Jamaica
After serving in the Royal Air Force as an education officer and working as a copywriter,[3] Lucie-Smith became a full-time writer (as well as anthologist and photographer). He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.[4]
At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several 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 independent magazine ArtReview from the 1960s until the 2000s. 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.[2]
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 and the Francis Bacon Estate have not authenticated these works known as the 'Francis Bacon Italian Drawings'. Martin Harrison, the editor of the Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, does not include 'The Francis Bacon Italian Drawings' and does not see the hand of Bacon in these drawings.[6]
His uncle Euan Lucie-Smith was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular British Army regiment, and the first killed in World War I.[7]
Bibliographyedit
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Poetry and fictionedit
Lucie-Smith, Edward (1954). J. E. M. Lucie-Smith. The Fantasy Poets; No. 25. Eynsham, Oxford: Fantasy Press.
^ abcdLevens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 426.
^Potts, Robert (23 April 2010). "Peter Porter obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
^Lucie-Smith, Edward (2012). Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings. Cv publications. p. 115. ISBN 978-1908419460. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
^Bailey, Martin (December 2012). "Not a Bacon, expert tells court: The debate around Bacon's drawings continues". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
^Sanderson, Ginny (22 October 2020). "First black British officer of First World War was Eastbourne student". www.eastbourneherald.co.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^Lucie-Smith, Edward (1993). Elizabeth Fritsch: Vessels from Another World, Metaphysical Pots in Painted Stoneware. ISBN 978-1-85725-098-5.
^Poole, Steven (25 October 2008). "Censoring the Body". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
^Lucie-Smith, Edward (2017). Amazonia Imagined. ISBN 978-1-910787-41-0.
^Lucie-Smith, Edward (2016). Pop Expressionism: Works on Paper by Philipp-Rudolf Humm. ISBN 978-1-910787-39-7.
^Heffer, Steven; Lucie-Smith, Edward (2016). Steven Heffer: A Very British Modernist. ISBN 978-1-910787-40-3.
^Strathcarron, Ian; Lucie-Smith, Edward (2017). Sophie Walbeoffe: Painting with Both Hands. ISBN 978-1-910787-54-0.
^Lucie-Smith, Edward; Alexander, Charles C. (2017). New Dimensions in Art. ISBN 978-1-910787-76-2.