Critic As Advocate, The: Selected Essays 1948-1988

AUSTRALIAN ART Aboriginal

Selection of critical essays in which Bernard Smith discusses Australian art between 1940 and 1988. Includes discussion of art with Aboriginal themes by artists Arthur and David Boyd. Includes references to the influence of Aboriginal art on artists Margaret Preston and Ian Fairweather. Illustrations include “Aborigines in Fitzroy” by Josl Bergner p. 27.

First Edition.

• x, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. #291224
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Art – Artists – Non-Indigenous
  • Race relations – Representation – Art

  Subject:

  • Painting, Australian — 20th century
  • Art criticism — Australia — 20th century — History