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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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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 (1916-2011) was one of Australia's most important twentieth-century art historians and an influential cultural commentator. His book 'Place, Taste and Tradition' (1945) was one of the earliest general histories of Australian art.
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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.
