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The legacies of Bernard Smith : essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics / edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall and Andrew Yip.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011--Criticism and interpretation.
- Smith, Bernard.
- Art appreciation--Australia.
- Art appreciation.
- Art and society--Australia.
- Art and society.
- Art--Political aspects--Australia.
- Art.
- Art critics--Australia.
- Art critics.
- Art historians--Australia.
- Art historians.
- Festschriften--Australia.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 370 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Australia : Power Publications : Art Gallery NSW, 2016.
- Summary:
- It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the directory of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, published the classic art text Australian Painting.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Biographical Overview
- 1 / Encountering Australia: European Vision and The South Pacific
- A half-century on: the legacy of European Vision and the South Pacific : Andrew Sayers
- 'My greatest debt': Bernard Smith, the Warburg Institute, and the evolution of European Vision and the South Pacific : Robert W. Gaston
- History, art history and museology in the Pacific : Nicholas Thomas
- Cooperation and friendship: in tribute to Bernard Smith : Rüdiger Joppien
- Photography and the triumph of science in European Vision and the South Pacific : Kathleen Davidson
- 2 / Defining Australian Art
- Bernard Smith: the art historian as hero : Terry Smith
- Bernard, wordsmith : Peter Beilharz
- Re-reading Bernard Smith on what constitutes Australian art : Catherine Speck
- Bernard Smith in space and time: 'The Antipodean Manifesto' fifty years later : Paul Giles
- Peter Fuller, the Celtic midwife and some [other] Northern critics of Southern art : Simon Pierse
- The life and the work: Australian art biography : John Clark
- Illustrations
- 3 / Bernard Smith and The Art Museum
- Contingency as the guard dog of history: Bernard Smith at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1944-48 : Steven Miller
- Bernard Smith and the professional art museum : Joanna Mendelssohn
- Mind the gap! Bernard Smith versus the museum, 1961 to 1995 : Christopher R. Marshall
- Documenting art: Bernard Smith, academic art history and the role of the curator : Jim Berryman
- Bernard Smith as curator: soixante-huitard or Grand Tourist? : Ann Stephen
- 4 / Bernard Smith's Cultural Politics
- Bernard Smith as activist : Max Solling
- The Marxist collector: the art collection of Bernard and Kate Smith : Kate Challis.
- Ideological conduits and political coathangers: Bernard Smith on Counihan and Courbet : Sheridan Palmer
- Bernard Smith, 'cultural convergence' and art history : Catherine De Lorenzo
- Bernard Smith's blind spot: Aboriginal and Australian art : Ian McLean
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-909952-98-1
- OCLC:
- 940738711
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