| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Origins. The paradox of identity ; The bench child ; A Darwinian conversion ; The enclosed garden ; Edge of the periphery -- New Tremors. The spectre of Guernica ; South ; A Marxist apprentice ; Apocalyptic jitters ; Surrealist impulses ; The return ; The young historian -- Cultural Crossings. Local adversaries ; A modern world ; A civilising influence ; Marriage ; Cadre Smith ; On loan ; Place, Taste and Tradition ; Art, society and the critic ; In through the back door -- The Black Swan. Politics and primitivism ; Cold War tensions ; New families ; South of north ; Antipodeans in London ; The shock of povert y; The Abbey ; Retracing origins ; Cave of origins ; Visibility -- The Lone Antipodean. Age of the mandarins ; The concrete grid of Melbourne ; University and the community ; Bernard's brotherhood ; The myth of isolation -- The 1960s. Opposite directions ; The USA ; Intermission ; An academic art critic ; Of things to come ; 1966 -- The Construction of Power. Cultural eclecticism ; Postmodernism's maelstrom ; Glebe ; Tahiti to Leningrad ; Cultural liberalism ; The last days of Power -- The Constant Revisionist. In the footsteps of Cook ; Return to the margins ; The spectre of Truganini ; Homage to Jack ; Vox populism ; Counihan and the class struggle ; Farewell journey ; The gatekeeper ; RAKA ; The Celtic temperament ; The postmodern turn -- Permissible Limits. The unclothed object ; The final word as dusk falls ; Hegel's owl |
| Summary |
"Perth Bernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008 Smith invited writer and art historian Dr Sheridan Palmer to write his biography. Through years of interviews and exclusive access to Smith's papers and library, Palmer reveals the unique character of an exceptional man."--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Australian CIP title: Hegel's owl : the biography of Bernard Smith / Sheridan Palmer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 20, 2017) |
| Subject |
Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011.
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011 fast |
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Art historians -- Australia -- Biography
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Art critics -- Australia -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Art critics
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Art historians
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780994306487 |
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0994306482 |
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9780994306456 |
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0994306458 |
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