Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith [Paperback]

Peter Beilharz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 22, 2002

Bernard Smith is widely recognized as one of Australia's leading intellectuals in the fields of anthropology and art history. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity. Smith enables Australians to think about matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. This is the first book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

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Review

"The art historian and critic Bernard Smith has long been a central figure and core thinker in the field of European `envisioning' of the Pacific and his work has influenced thinking well beyond the field of Antipodean studies. So it is beneficial and refreshing to have at last a thoroughgoing, analytically and critically rich assessment of Smith's work, and in particular, to have one as vibrant and wide-ranging as Peter Beilharz's inventively imagined work." Douglass Drozdow-St.Christian, Pacific Affiars

Book Description

Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals in the fields of art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521524342
• ISBN-13: 978-0521524346
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,330,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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