Race, Sex & Gender in Contemporary Art: The Rise of Minority Culture

by Edward Lucie-Smith

Book by Lucie-Smith, Edward

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, LGBT

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

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 (as well as anthologist and photographer). 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 (1988–90) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.

Reviews

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

A more than decent overview of the historical perspective and current (as when written) trends in minority art. Maybe not Lucie-Smith's best book overall, but his writing is always interesting, informative, and clearly written. Given the book's length, it was never going to be possible for this to be a comprehensive look at all the different groups whose work is presented, and an updated edition would be most worthwhile, but as a starter guide it is an excellent read.

[Amy Misurelli Sorensen · Rating 3 out of 5]

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