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Edward Lucie Smith
Books by this author:
Changing Shape
Edward Lucie Smith was born in 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Merton College, Oxford, where he read History. After service as an Education Officer in the R.A.F., he worked in advertising for ten years before becoming a freelance author. He is a prolific and widely published writer on art. Several of his books, including Movements in Art since 1945, Visual Arts of the Twentieth Century, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world. He is a poet and anthologist, and a photographer whose work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
His own web-site, with examples of his photography and much else, is www.edwardlucie-smith.co.uk; see also www.arttomorrow.com.
Edward Lucie-Smith was born in 1933 at Kingston, Jamaica. He moved toBritain in 1946, and was educated at King's School, Canterbury andMerton College, Oxford, where he read History. Subsequently he was anEducation Officer in the R.A.F., then worked in advertising for tenyears before becoming a freelance author. He is now an internationallyknown art critic and historian, who is also a published poet (member ofthe Académie Européenne de Poésie, winner of the John Llewellyn RhysMemorial Prize), an anthologist and a practising photographer.
He has published more than a hundred books in all, including abiography of Joan of Arc (recently republished by Penguin in paperbackas a 'classic biography'), a historical novel, and more than sixtybooks about art, chiefly but not exclusively about contemporary work.He is generally regarded as the most prolific and the most widelypublished writer on art, with sales for some titles totalling over250,000 copies. A number of his art books, among them Movements in Art since 1945 , Visual Arts of the 20th Century, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world. Movements in Art since 1945,first published in 1969, has been continuously in print since thatdate, and has been completely updated five times since firstpublication. A new edition was published in March 2001. Otherwell-known texts include Sexuality in Western Art and 20th-Century Latin American Art.The latter is regarded as the best concise account of a notoriouslycomplex subject. It has been translated into Spanish and is widely usedin Latin America itself. In addition to writing on art he has writtenextensively on craft and on industrial design, where his books include The Story of Craft, A History of Industrial Design and A Concise History of Furniture. Other texts include American Realism (1994) and Ars Erotica (1997). He is also the author of Judy Chicago: An American Vision(1999, Watson-Guptill), the first full career survey of the work of theleading American feminist artist. His books have been translated intomany languages, among them French, Italian, Spanish (where he has sixtitles in the Mundo del Arte series published by El Destino inBarcelona), German, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian,Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, Korean and Chinese. Movements in Art appearedin October 2001 in Farsi. The translator is the director of the TehranMuseum of Contemporary Art. He has been curator of a number of exhibitions, including three PeterMoores Projects at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, (surveys ofcontemporary British art), The New British Painting (which toured USvenues in 1988-90) and two artist retrospectives, Lin Emery and GeorgeDunbar, both for the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has been a jurymember for the John Moores prize exhibition in Liverpool, and forbiennials in Cairo, Sharjah, Alexandria and Belgrade. He was recentlycurator of 'New British Art'. at the Orion Gallery in Ostend(April-June 2001), and of 'New Classicism: Artists of the Ideal', whichopened at Palazzo Forti, Verona (April-September 2002). A book of his Collected and Selected Poems entitled Changing Shape was published by the Carcanet in February 2002. He has lectured in numerous countries including the United States,France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina,Chile, Colombia, Australia, Turkey, Iran, Korea, Hong Kong. Yugoslavia,Australia and New Zealand. In Britain he was for many years a well-known broadcaster, appearingregularly on the BBC arts discussion programme 'The Critics' and itssuccessor 'Critics' Forum'. His appearances on these programmes spanneda period of twenty years. He has written for many leading British newspapers and periodicals, among them The Times (where at one time he had a regular column), the London Evening Standard (whose critic he was for two years), the New Statesman, the Spectator, the London Magazine and Encounter. He writes regularly for Art Review, and also for Index on Censorship. He also writes for La Vanguardia in Barcelona. His photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions in London,Brussels, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, Rome, Kuala Lumpur, and St Petersburg. Abook of his photographs, 'Flesh & Stone', was published by theFrench imprint Ipso Facto Publishers, in October 2000. There was anAmerican museum show at the Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio,in February/March 2003. His work as a photographer is included in the collections of theNational Portrait Gallery, London; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; theNew Orleans Museum of Art; the Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown,Ohio; the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, and the FrissirasMuseum, Athens. |
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