Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith
By (Author) Rex Butler
Edited by Sheridan Palmer
Monash University Publishing
Monash University Publishing
1st July 2018
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
709.2
Physical Properties
Paperback
432
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Description
Bernard Smith (19162011) was undoubtedly Australias greatest art historian and arguably Australias most important humanist scholar. 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 broader 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.
Author Bio
Rex Butler is an art historian who writes on Australian art and teaches in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. Sheridan Palmer is an art historian, curator and author of the biography Hegels Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith.
