Antipodean Perspective

Selected Writings of Bernard Smith

Rex Butler, Sheridan Palmer

• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781925495676
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art & Politics

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Frontispiece: Bernard Smith
• Title Page
• Copyright and Imprint Information
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Place, Taste and Tradition: A Study of Australian Art since 1788 (1945). By Tim Bonyhady
• 2. ‘The Art Museum Today’ (1946). By Maria Zagala
• 3. ‘The Fascist Mentality in Australian Art and Criticism’ (1946). By Anthony White
• 4. ‘The Antipodean Manifesto’ (1959). By Ronald Millar
• 5. European Vision and the South Pacific, 1765–1850 (1960). By Alisa Bunbury
• 6. European Vision and the South Pacific, 1765–1850 (1960). By Leonard Bell
• 7. European Vision and the South Pacific: 1768–1850 (1960). By Greg Lehman
• 8. Australian Painting Today (1961). By Terry Smith
• 9. Australian Painting 1788–1960 (1962). By Heather Barker and Charles Green
• 10. ‘Great Display of Recent British Sculpture’ (1963) and Address Given at the Second Mildura Sculpture Exhibition (1964). By Jane Eckett
• 11. Arts Vietnam Exhibition Opening Speech (1968). By Catherine Speck
• 12. Documents on Art and Taste 1770–1914 (1975). By Rüdiger Joppien
• 13. Art as Information: Reflections on the Art from Captain Cook’s Voyages (1979). By Ian Donaldson
• 14. The Spectre of Truganini (1980). By Darren Jorgensen
• 15. ‘William Hodges and English Plein-Air Painting’ (1983). By Geoff Quilley
• 16. The Boy Adeodatus (1984). By Peter Craven
• 17. ‘Marx and Aesthetic Value’ (1986). By Peter Beilharz
• 18. ‘Australian Art in England’ (1989). By Simon Pierse
• 19. Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages (1992). By John Frow
• 20. Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary (1993). By Janet McKenzie
• 21. ‘Preface’ to M.E. McGuire, All Things Opposite (1995). By Juliette Peers
• 22. Modernism’s History (1998). By Ian McLean
• 23. ‘In Defence of Art History’ (2000) by Catherine de Lorenzo
• 24. ‘Ernst Gombrich 1909–2001’ (2001–02). By Richard Woodfield
• 25. A Distant Relationship. By Emma Hicks
• Contributors’ Biographies
• List of Selected Texts and Acknowledgements
• Index
• Back Cover