Antipodean perspective selected writings (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 432.

Zustand: New. 2018. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…