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

Hardback

Main Details

Title Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Beilharz
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:234
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreAustralia, New Zealand & Pacific history
ISBN/Barcode 9780521583558
ClassificationsDewey:306.0994
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 August 1997
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on 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 in the world system. Smith enables us to think matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. Australian identities are constructed by the relationship between core and periphery, making them both European and Other at the same time. This is the first book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

Reviews

'In writing Imagining the Antipodes, Peter Beilharz has had access to both Smith's unpublished papers and to the man himself. It is the first study of Smith's achievement and as such is certainly worthwhile.' The Times Literary Supplement