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Bernard Smith, 1948. Bernard William Smith (3 October 1916 – 2 September 2011) was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered the founding father of Australian art history, and one of the country's most important thinkers. His book Place, Taste and Tradition: a Study of Australian Art Since 1788 is a key text in ...
Oct 12, 2020 · Abstract. Much has been published on the career and scholarly achievements of Bernard Smith (1916–2011) since his retirement from teaching in 1977 and has predictably gathered pace after his death. It is clear that the reception of his very substantial body of writings, addressing so many fields within the humanities, critical thought and art ...
- Robert W. Gaston
- 2020
Bernard Smith’s rethinking of antipodeanism – a term he coined – and his aim to legitimate Australian culture within a globalised postwar world was a pioneering and brilliant study of cultural origins and evolution; at a personal level it reflected his own genesis.
European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, is the most acclaimed of all Bernard Smith’s many texts on art history and cultural theory. In conjunction with its 1992 companion-pi...
- Tom Ryan
- 2005
Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. 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.
Smith, Bernard - Dictionary of Art Historians. Full Name: Smith, Bernard. Gender: male. Date Born: 1916. Date Died: 2011. Place Born: Sydney, Australia. Home Country/ies: Australia. Institution (s): University of Melbourne. Overview. Smith’s parents were Charles Smith and Rose Anne Tierney (Smith).
Dec 31, 1999 · Bernard Smith, who edited authors like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Langston Hughes at Alfred A. Knopf, wrote well-regarded books and produced such Hollywood films as ''Elmer Gantry''...
