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Antipodean Perspective : Selected Writings of Bernard Smith

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Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was undoubtedly Australia's greatest art historian and arguably Australia's most important humanist scholar. 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 broader 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781925495669
  • ISBN-10: 1925495663
  • Publisher: Monash University Publishing
  • Publish Date: July 2018
  • Shipping Weight: 0.81 pounds
  • Page Count: 432

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