Bernard Smith (art historian)

Bernard William Smith ( born October 3, 1916 in Sydney, † 2 September 2011) was an Australian art historian and art critic.

Bernard Smith studied at the University of Sydney and in London at the Warburg Institute and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and at the Australian National University. Smith taught from 1935 to 1944 at the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, after which he was to 1952 curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He was from 1955 to 1963 professor at the art history faculty of the University of Melbourne. He then left for three years, the university and became art critic for the Melbourne newspaper The Age, but went in 1967 as a founding member of the Department of Contemporary Art and Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney back. Smith was then 1977-1980 President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is a member of the art history faculty of the University of Melbourne.

The French government made ​​him a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

  • Place, Taste and Tradition. A Study of Australian Art Since 1788 Sydney:. Ure Smith, 1945 (reprint Melbourne: OUP, 1979)
  • A Catalogue of Australian Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952 Sydney: The Gallery, 1953
  • Antipodean Manifesto. Victorian Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne, Vic., 1959 ( 8 pages). To show The Antipodeans in August, 1959.
  • European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850. A Study in the History of Art and Ideas, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1960. Reprint 1985.
  • Australian Painting Today: The John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Lecture, 1961 St. Lucia, Qld: Queensland University Press, 1962
  • Australian Painting, 1788-2000 Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1962 ( added new editions 1971, 1991 along with Terry Smith and Christopher Heathcote 2001, together with )
  • The Architectural Character of Glebe, Sydney ( with Kate Smith), Sydney: University Co -operative Bookshop Press, 1973 ( reprinted 1985)
  • Concerning Contemporary Art: the Power Lectures, 1968-1973 (ed. ) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975
  • Documents on Art and Taste in Australia: the Colonial Period, 1770-1914 ( ed ) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975
  • The Antipodean Manifesto: Essays in Art and History Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975
  • Art as Information: Reflections on the Art from Captain Cook's Voyages Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1979
  • The Spectre of Truganini Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1980
  • The Boy Adeodatus: the Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard Ringwood, Vic. Allen Lane, 1984 ( reprinted 1985, 1994)
  • The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages (with Rüdiger Joppien ) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, three volumes, 1985-1987.
  • The Death of the Artist as Hero: Essays in History and Culture Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
  • The Art of the First Fleet and Other Early Australian Drawings ( eds Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler ), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
  • Baudin in Australian Waters: the Artwork of the French Vyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands 1800-1804 ( eds J. Bonnemains, E. Forsyth and B. Smith) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
  • Terra Australis: the Furthest Shore ( eds W. Eisler and B. Smith) Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, 1988
  • The Critic as Advocate: Selected Essays 1941-1988 Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, 1989
  • The last photo Harlow: Longman, 1989.
  • Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
  • Poems 1938-1993 Carlton, Vic. Meanjin, 1996
  • Modernism 's History: A Study in Twentieth - Century Art and Ideas New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998
  • A Pavane for Another Time Sydney: Macmillan, 2002

Selected essays

  • European Vision and the South Pacific. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute, Volume 8 (1950 ), pp. 65-100
  • Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner and Cook 's second voyage. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Volume 19 (1956 ), pp. 117-152
  • Art Historical Studies in Australia with Comments on Research and Publication since 1974, In: . Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 12, No. 1982-83, pp. 44-73. Retrieved on 18 February 2009.
  • Sir Joseph Burke, 1913-1992. In: Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 17, No. 1992, pp. 46-49. Retrieved on 19 February 2009.
  • ' Modernism and post- modernism: neo - colonial viewpoint - Concerning the sources of modernism and post- modernism in the visual arts ' Thesis Eleven Volume 38 (1994 ) pp. 104-117
  • ' Modernism, post- modernism and the formalesque ' Edition 20 (1994 ), pp. 9-11

Swell

  • International Who's Who London: Europa Publications, 2000
  • The Writings of Bernard Smith: Bibliography 1938-1998, J. Spencer and P. Wright, editor, Sydney: Power Publications, 2000
  • Obituary: Bernard Smith: The Sydney Morning Herald of 8 September 2011 accessed on 15 September 2011
  • Carrier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Knight )
  • Art historian
  • Person ( Sydney )
  • University teachers ( University of Melbourne)
  • University teachers (University of Sydney )
  • Born 1916
  • Died in 2011
  • Man
  • Australian
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