History 

Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Australian art to that time. Antipodean Perspective: The Selected Writings of Bernard Smith presents twenty-six art historians, curators, artists and critics, from Australia and overseas, who have chosen a text from Smith's work and sought to explain its personal and broad significance. Their selections reveal Smith's extraordinary range as a scholar, his profound grasp of this nation's past, and the way his ideas have maintained their relevance as we face our future. 

1. Place, Taste and Tradition: A Study of Australian Art since 1788 (1945) / Tim Bonyhady
'Impressionism in Australia' (1945) / Bernard Smith
2. 'The Art Museum Today' (1946) / Maria Zagala
'The Social Role of the Art Museum' (1946) / Bernard Smith
'The Art Museum and Public Accountability' (1985) / Bernard Smith
3. 'The Fascist Mentality in Australian Art and Criticism' (1946) / Anthony White
'The Fascist Mentality in Australian Art and Criticism' (1946) / Bernard Smith
4. 'The Antipodean Manifesto' (1959) / Ronald Millar
'The Antipodean Manifesto' (1959) / Bernard Smith et. al.
5. European Vision and the South Pacific, 1765
1850 (1960) / Alisa Bunbury
'The First Fleet Artists' (1960) / Bernard Smith
6. European Vision and the South Pacific, 1765-1850 (1960) / Leonard Bell
'The Australian Landscape, 1821-35, "The Bivouac Situation"' (1960) / Bernard Smith
7. European Vision and the South Pacific: 1768-1850 (1960) / Greg Lehman
'John Glover in Arcadia' (1960) / Bernard Smith
8. Australian Painting Today (1961) / Terry Smith
'The Myth of Isolation' (1961) / Bernard Smith
9. Australian Painting 1788-1960 (1962) / Heather Barker & Charles Green
'Acknowledgements' (1962) / Bernard Smith
10. 'Great Display of Recent British Sculpture' (1963) and Address Given at the Second Mildura Sculpture Exhibition (1964) / Jane Eckett
'Great Display of Recent British Sculpture' (1963) / Bernard Smith
Address given at the opening of the second Mildura Sculpture Exhibition, 18 April 1964 / Bernard Smith
11. Arts Vietnam Exhibition Opening Speech (1968) / Catherine Speck
Smith's Speech (1968) / Bernard Smith
12. Documents on Art and Taste 1770-1914 (1975) / Rüdiger Joppien
Selections from Documents on Art and Taste in Australia 1770-1914 (1975) / Bernard Smith
13. Art as Information: Reflections on the Art from Captain Cook's Voyages (1979) / Ian Donaldson
'On the Art of Cook's Voyages' (1979) / Bernard Smith
14. The Spectre of Truganini (1980) / Darren Jorgensen
'On the Frontiers Within' (1980) / Bernard Smith
15. 'William Hodges and English Plein-Air Painting' (1983) / Geoff Quilley
'William Hodges and English Plein-Air Painting' (1983) / Bernard Smith
16. The Boy Adeodatus (1984) / Peter Craven
'The Enclosed Garden' (1984) / Bernard Smith
17. 'Marx and Aesthetic Value' (1986) / Peter Beilharz
'Marx and Aesthetic Value' (1986) / Bernard Smith
18. 'Australian Art in England' (1989) / Simon Pierse
'Australian Art in England' (1989) / Bernard Smith
19. Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages (1992) / John Frow
'On the Topographic Artists' (1992) / Bernard Smith
20. Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary (1993) / Janet McKenzie
'War, Tuberculosis and Modernism' (1983) / Bernard Smith
21. 'Preface' to M.E. McGuire, All Things Opposite (1995) / Juliette Peers
'Preface', All Things Opposite: Essays on Australian Art (1995) / Bernard Smith
22. Modernism s History (1998) / Ian McLean
From 'Introduction' and 'Conclusion' (1998) / Bernard Smith
23. 'In Defence of Art History' (2000) / Catherine de Lorenzo
'In Defence of Art History', Part I (2000) / Bernard Smith
'In Defence of Art History', Part II (2000) / Bernard Smith
24. 'Ernst Gombrich 1909-2001' (2001-02) / Richard Woodfield
'Ernst Gombrich, 1909-2001' (2001-2002) / Bernard Smith
25. A Distant Relationship / Emma Hicks.