Thursday 8 Sep 2016, 2.00- 3.00pm
Join Professor Rex Butler for the Melbourne launch of The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics.
Bernard Smith could rightly be called the founder of Australian art history. His influence on Australian cultural life was immense, from the publication of Place, Taste and Tradition in 1945 until his death in September 2011. Each of his publications nurtured an Antipodean view, whether art historical or anthropological, and opened up new fields in Australian scholarship.
The Legacies of Bernard Smith arises from a collaborative international conference convened in 2012 between the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, and the AGNSW. It is the most significant work on Smith’s impact to date, with over twenty contributing authors, and examines his legacies in Australian art history, museology, Pacific art studies, Australian studies and Indigenous art.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Professor Jaynie Anderson is Professorial Fellow in Art History and Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Her most recent work includes The Restoration of Renaissance Painting in mid Nineteenth-Century Milan: Giuseppe Molteni in Correspondence with Giovanni Morelli (2014).
Dr Christopher R. Marshall is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne, and author of such works as From Altar to App: Displaying Devotion in the Contemporary Museum (2015).
Dr Andrew Yip is iGLAM Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts. He is co-curator of the forthcoming AGNSW archive and collection exhibitions, Hidden War: stories from the trenches in the National Art Archive, and Mad through the darkness: Australian artists and the Great War (2015).
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Rex Butler is an art historian, writer and Professor (Art History & Theory) at Monash University. His research interests include contemporary Australian art and art criticism; Post-war American art; and Postmodernism. Rex Butler is currently editing a collection entitled ‘Radical Revisionism’ on Australian post-colonial art and two volumes of Slavoj Zizek’s selected writings. He is the author six books including, What is Appropriation? (1996); Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999); A Secret History of Australian Art (2002); and Borges’ Short Stories: A Reader’s Guide (2010).
To RSVP just to this event please visit the Ian Potter Website: http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/public-programs/current-events/prgm-date/2016-09-08/prgm/book-launch-the-legacies-of-bernard-smith-essays-on-australian-art-history-and-cultural-politics
The Melbourne launch of The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics is part of the program of the conference Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914, a four day international conference taking place between September 8-11, 2016.
For further information and full order of proceedings of the conference please go to:
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/study/art-history-and-art-curatorship/human-kind
This is generously supported by the Australian Institute of Art History.