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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.
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...
Sep 7, 2011 · Bernard Smith consolidated art history as an academic discipline. Francis Reiss. For almost 70 years Smith worked and wrote at the coalface of contemporary socio-politics and cultural change, but it was his interest in Australia's cultural identity, its ''antipodeanism'', that preoccupied him.
Aug 9, 2016 · Hegel’s Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith by Sheridan Palmer is a densely researched biography with an excellent opening table of contents, a meticulously compiled index and bibliography and is divided into nine chapters.
Bernard Smith (September 20, 1907 – December 21, 1999) was an American literary editor, film producer, and literary critic. He is best remembered for his work at the Knopf publishing house, where he edited B. Traven, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett, and Langston Hughes.
A biographical and historical analysis of Bernard Smith, a pioneer of Antipodean studies and cultural criticism. Explore his personal and intellectual journey, his encounters with British scholars and his rethinking of Australian art and culture.
Bernard Smith could rightly be called the founder of Australian art history. His influence on Australian cultural life was immense, from the publication of Place, Taste and Tradition in 1945 until his death in September 2011.
