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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
Oct 12, 2020 · Smith’s antipodean experience was in many ways distinctive. But those of us who knew him personally, or felt his influence as a teacher and writer, will need to reassess honestly their own genesis in order to deal effectively with the challenges embedded in his work. Get full access to this article.
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.
