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ISBN | 9781925495669 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Bib. Info | xxiv, 401 pages ; 24 cm |
Categories | DU - Oceania (South Seas) |
Product Weight | 575 gms. |
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Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Australian art to that time. Antipodean Perspective: The Selected Writings of Bernard Smith presents twenty-six art historians, curators, artists and critics, from Australia and overseas, who have chosen a text from Smith's work and sought to explain its personal and broad significance. Their selections reveal Smith's extraordinary range as a scholar, his profound grasp of this nation's past, and the way his ideas have maintained their relevance as we face our future. Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011 -- Criticism and interpretation. | Art -- Australia -- History. | Art criticism -- Australia -- 20th century. | Australian history | Australian