Imagining the Antipodes - Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith

Klappentext This book analyses Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. Zusammenfassung This 1997 work is a book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. Encountering art in Australia; 3. Imagining the Pacific; 4. The Antipodean manifesto; 5. Death of the hero as artist; 6. Modernity, history and postmodernity; 7. Conclusions - imagining the Antipodes.

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• Autori: Peter Beilharz, Peter (La Trobe University Beilharz, Beilharz Peter
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521524346
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52434-6
• Pagine: 236
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Arte figurativa; Australia, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, ART / Australian & Oceanian, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Australasian & Pacific history, Individual artists, art monographs, Australasian and Pacific history