SEMINAR: Bernard Smith and Some Northern Critics of Australian Art
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As part of the ALVA Seminar Series, Dr Simon Pierse (Senior Lecturer at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Wales) will present his paper on Bernard Smith’s essay Some Northern Critics of Southern Art (1986) - a personalised account of his encounters with
British and American critics who visited Australia in the post-war period.
Smith's essay is an appraisal of how these critics perceived post-war Australian art ‘from the outside’ and how their appreciation or lack of appreciation of it was formulated through a critical or curatorial bias in relation to the Antipodes. His critique of the views of Sir Kenneth Clark and theories of Peter Fuller link directly to his acquaintance with them as people, whilst as co-signatory and architect of the Antipodean Manifesto in 1959, he projects himself as something more than mere uninvolved spectator to a period recently lived through and events that he had witnessed.
Speaker(s) |
Dr Simon Pierse
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Location |
G22 (rear of the Cullity Gallery)
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Contact |
Professor Nigel Westbrook
<[email protected]>
: 6488 2592
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Start |
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:00
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End |
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:00
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Submitted by |
Laura Radovan <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:13
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