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Flora: Flowers in Art and Literature
-Flower garden and plants in art and literature.
- GenresArt
Hardcover
First published January 1, 2001
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Edward Lucie-Smith
453 books29 followersJohn 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.
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.
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August 22, 2024I'm just thumbing through this at the moment, but I intend to read this little book eventually.
I've noticed a couple of errors so far, just opening the book at random. On page 263 (of the Watson-Guptill edition), he states quite plainly that the artist depicted a young gardener with strawberries all over his tunic. This is blatantly incorrect. The painting is likely an homage to one of Frida Kahlo's portraits, and depicts the gardener in a tunic covered in human hearts.
On the very next page, he describes a painting in which "two wasps have started to attack an apple that has had a bite taken out of it". The apple does indeed have a bite out of it, but it's being carried off by three ants, while a fourth ant inspects the bite. No wasps are present anywhere.
Perhaps either description is referring to another painting (in a series) by the same artist; I've yet to look them up. If not, both errors are head-scratchers.
I've noticed a couple of errors so far, just opening the book at random. On page 263 (of the Watson-Guptill edition), he states quite plainly that the artist depicted a young gardener with strawberries all over his tunic. This is blatantly incorrect. The painting is likely an homage to one of Frida Kahlo's portraits, and depicts the gardener in a tunic covered in human hearts.
On the very next page, he describes a painting in which "two wasps have started to attack an apple that has had a bite taken out of it". The apple does indeed have a bite out of it, but it's being carried off by three ants, while a fourth ant inspects the bite. No wasps are present anywhere.
Perhaps either description is referring to another painting (in a series) by the same artist; I've yet to look them up. If not, both errors are head-scratchers.
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