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Andrew Yip

The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, history and cultural politics edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall, and Andrew Yip

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May 2017, no. 391
Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, history and cultural politics' edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall, and Andrew Yip

A persistent fascination attaches to those who help break the new wood, and so it is with Bernard Smith (1916–2011). His contribution is foundational to the study of the arts in Australia. Smith was for more than sixty years the country’s leading art historian, but he was also an educator, curator, newspaper critic, collector, memoirist, and biographer. Even as ...