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1 online resource (pages.) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction; Chapter One: Origins; The paradox of identity; The bench child; A Darwinian conversion; The enclosed garden; Edge of the periphery; Chapter Two: New Tremors; The spectre of Guernica; South; A Marxist apprentice; Apocalyptic jitters; Surrealist impulses; The return; The young historian; Chapter Three: Cultural Crossings; Local adversaries; A modern world; A civilising influence; Marriage; Cadre Smith; On loan; Place, Taste and Tradition; Art, society and the critic; In through the back door; Chapter Four: The Black Swan-; Politics and primitivism; Cold War tensions |
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New familiesSouth of north; Antipodeans in London; The shock of poverty; The Abbey; Retracing origins; Cave of origins; Visibility; Chapter Five: The Lone Antipodean; Age of the mandarins; The concrete grid of Melbourne; University and the community; Bernard's brotherhood; The myth of isolation; Chapter Six: The 1960s; Opposite directions; The USA; Intermission; An academic art critic; Of things to come; 1966; Chapter Seven: The Construction of Power; Cultural eclecticism; Postmodernism's maelstrom; Glebe; Tahiti to Leningrad; Cultural liberalism; The last days of Power |
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Chapter Eight: The Constant RevisionistIn the footsteps of Cook; Return to the margins; The spectre of Truganini; Homage to Jack; Vox populism; Counihan and the class struggle; Farewell journey; The gatekeeper; RAKA; The Celtic temperament; The postmodern turn; Chapter Nine: Permissible Limits; The unclothed object; The final word as dusk falls; Hegel's owl; Notes; Introduction; Chapter One: Origins; Chapter Two: New Tremors; Chapter Three: Cultural Crossings; Chapter Four: The Black Swan-; Chapter Five: The Lone Antipodean; Chapter Six: The 1960s; Chapter Seven: The Construction of Power |
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Chapter Eight: The Constant RevisionistChapter Nine: Permissible Limits; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Selected Works by Bernard Smith; Books; Articles; Interviews; Other interviews; Further Reading; Catalogues; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Index; Imprint Information |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011.
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Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011. |
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Art historians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Art historians. |
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Australia. |
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Art critics -- Australia -- Biography.
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Art critics. |
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Biographies.
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Australian |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Palmer, Sheridan. Hegel's owl. University Of Sydney, N.S.W. Power Publications, 2016 9780994306425 (OCoLC)932278135 |
| ISBN |
9780994306487 (electronic book) |
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0994306482 (electronic book) |
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9780994306456 (electronic book) |
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0994306458 (electronic book) |
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9780994306425 |
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0994306423 |
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