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.