Antipodean Perspective (Paperback)

Paperback. 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. Bernard Smith (19162011) was unquestionably one of Australia's 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.