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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
The life of Bernard Smith, pioneering art critic and historian, is the timeless story of a poor boy who made good.
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.
- Lynne Lancaster
May 23, 2016 · The Legacies of Bernard Smith: essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics, edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher Marshall and myself, explores the enduring impact that Smith has had on the many fields in which he worked.
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.
