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The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde
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Africa Remix; Art Criticism and the Formalist Approach; Damien Hirst Collects; DECODE: a glimpse of the future; Dialogues in Diversity; Damien Who?; Ecstasy in Los Angeles; Making Art History; Making New Museums; The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde; Modern British Sculpture; Radical Nature; The Modern Shaman; What it is to Curate; What Next for Contemporary Art.

About the Author

Edward Lucie-Smith was born in 1933 at Kingston, Jamaica.He moved to Britain in 1946, and was educated at King's School,Canterbury and Merton College, Oxford, where he read History.Subsequently he was an Education Officer in the R.A.F., then worked in advertising for ten years before becoming a freelance author. He is now an internationally known art critic and historian, who is also a published poet (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize), an anthologist and a practicing photographer. He has published more than a hundred books in all, including a biography of Joan of Arc (recently republished by Penguin in paperback as a 'classic biography'), a historical novel, and more than sixty books about art, chiefly but not exclusively about contemporary work. 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 that date. He has been curator of a number of exhibitions, including three Peter Moores Projects at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, (surveys of contemporary British art), The New British Painting (which toured US venues in 1988-90) and two artist retrospectives, Lin Emery and George Dunbar, both for the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has been a jury member for the John Moores prize exhibition in Liverpool, and for biennials in Cairo, Sharjah, Alexandria and Belgrade. He was curator of 'New British Art'. at the Orion Gallery in Ostend (April-June 2001), of 'New Classicism: Artists of the Ideal', at Palazzo Forti, Verona (April-September 2002), and of 'Gods Becoming Men' at the Frissiras Museum, Athens [July-September 2004). He has recently become the curator of the new Bermondsey Project Space in London S.E.1

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