AUSTRALIAN ART

• xi, 299 p. ; 23 cm.
• Bibliography: p. 282-285.
• Arts. Australia, 1770-1914. Readings
• Art — Australia — History
• Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011
• Bernard Smith explores the subject of art in Australia with a focus on its history and evolution since the late 18th century.
• Bernard William Smith (1916–2011) was Australia’s most eminent twentieth century art historian and a major thinker in the humanities. His first book Place, Taste and Tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788 is a key text in Australian art history, while European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, remains a pioneering masterpiece in the art and sciences of empire, imperialism and cultural contact in the Pacific.