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

Paperback / softback

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:Paperback / softback
Pages:236
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreIndividual artists and art monographs
Australia, New Zealand & Pacific history
World history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521524346
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 22 August 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

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'In writing Imagining the Antipodes, Peter Beilharz has had access to both Smith's unpublished papers and to the man himself.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