Edward Lucie-Smith obituary
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Art historian, critic and poet who hosted ‘the Group’, a literary workshop of the 1950s and 60s The poet, art critic and historian Edward Lucie-Smith, who has died aged 93, was both prolific and polymathic. He wrote almost 100 full-length books, including studies of individual artists and large-scale historical surveys, among them The Male Nude: A Modern View (1985), Impressionist Women (1989) and Art and Civilization (1992). His suspicion of contemporary pieties did not lead him to any quick dismissal of contemporary work; rather, he remained permanently excited by the new, and keen to…
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Edward Lucie-Smith obituary
Art historian, critic and poet who hosted ‘the Group’, a literary workshop of the 1950s and 60s The poet, art critic and historian Edward Lucie-Smith, who has died aged 93, was both prolific and polymathic. He wrote almost 100 full-length books, including studies of...
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