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December 12, 2017 | |
9780994306425 | |
English | |
424 | |
60 illus. | |
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Hegel's Owl
The Life of Bernard Smith
About the Author
Endorsements
"A terrific book which paints the shades of Smith's interior and exterior worlds and brings to life a brilliant and pioneering Australian intellectual."—Jos Hackforth-Jones, director, Sotheby's Institute
"An elegant and powerful study, finely crafted – fully worthy of its subject."—Peter Beiharz, Curtin University, Perth
"Art teacher, artist, art historian, art critic, museum official, curator, university administrator, academician, collector, patron, and art theorist – Bernard Smith did it all, and then more: he was also a brilliant memoirist, a political polemicist, a cultural commentator, and a community activist. In this carefully researched, vividly written and thoroughly engaging biography, Sheridan Palmer provides an absorbing account of the intellectual and personal journey of Australia's preeminent historian of art and culture, a scholar with a worldwide reputation. Situating Smith within each of the fields he touched, Palmer also enriches our sense of how Australian culture was built during the twentieth century. By no means a hagiography, this is a full and frank account of a man who saw himself as, in his own words, 'a bastard among them, taking notes.'"—Terry Smith, author of Contemporary Art: World Currents
Paperback / softback | |
December 12, 2017 | |
9780994306425 | |
English | |
424 | |
60 illus. | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
1.8 Pounds (US) | |
$60.00 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |