Peter Beilharz

Imagining the Antipodes

Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1997 book analyses Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521583558
• ISBN-10: 0521583551
• Artikelnr.: 35453744

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. Encountering art in Australia
3. Imagining the Pacific
4. The Antipodean manifesto
5. Death of the hero as artist
6. Modernity, history and postmodernity
7. Conclusions - imagining the Antipodes.