Imagining the antipodes : culture, theory, and the visual in the work of Bernard Smith / Peter Beilharz.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xv, 216 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521583551
- 9780521583558
- 709.94
- N7483.S55 B45 1997
Contents:
Summary: An introduction to Smith's thinking and "an important argument about imperialism and the antipodes" providing a social theory or way of thinking about Australian culture and identity.
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.
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 709.94 BEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A145194B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-205) and index.
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.
An introduction to Smith's thinking and "an important argument about imperialism and the antipodes" providing a social theory or way of thinking about Australian culture and identity.
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