Antipodean Perspective - Selected Writings of Bernard Smith

Bernard Smith (19162011) was unquestionably one of Australias greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 17681850 (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 Smiths work and sought to explain its personal and broad significance. Their selections reveal Smiths extraordinary range as a scholar, his profound grasp of this nations past, and the way his ideas have maintained their relevance as we face our future.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rex Butler (Editor), Sheridan Palmer (Editor), Bernard Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781925495669
• ISBN: 978-1-925495-66-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 154 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: ART HISTORY; Art History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history