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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.
- Tom Ryan
- 2005
Jun 21, 2016 · The life of Bernard Smith, pioneering art critic and historian, is the timeless story of a poor boy who made good.
- Andrew Fuhrmann
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.
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.
Consider this: the greatest art historian in modern Australia, Bernard Smith, was a Marxist and a member of the CPA from 1940 to 1951. How did this come to be? Art has its own rules and aesthetics.
Bernard William Smith (1916–2011) was Australia’s most eminent twentieth century art historian and a major thinker in the humanities.
