Antipodean Perspective (Paperback)

Rex Butler

ISBN 10: 1925495663 / ISBN 13: 9781925495669

Published by Monash University Publishing, Clayton, VIC, 2018

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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. BernardSmith (19162011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanistscholars and its finest art historian. His EuropeanVision and the South Pacific, 17681850 (1960) was a foundationaltext of post-colonialism, and in AustralianPainting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Australian artto that time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Antipodean Perspective (Paperback)
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing, Clayton, VIC
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925495663
• ISBN 13: 9781925495669
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 Hegel’s Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith.