Name: The Death of the Artist As Hero: Essays in History and Culture
Author: Smith, Bernard
ISBN: 9780195548440

by Smith, Bernard

The Death of the Artist As Hero: Essays in History and Culture

by Smith, Bernard

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ISBN-13: 9780195548440
ISBN: 0195548442
Publication Date: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

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Smith, Bernard

SUMMARY

A unique collection of essays by Australia's foremost art historian, this volume explores the problems involved in defining and describing a visual aesthetic suited to a modern democratic society. Smith sets these problems in their Australian as well as their universal contexts, probing into such areas as community art, art and elitism, Aboriginal art, art and urban society, art in a multi-cultural society, art and abstraction, art and Marxism, and art and modernism.Smith, Bernard is the author of 'The Death of the Artist As Hero: Essays in History and Culture', published 1988 under ISBN 9780195548440 and ISBN 0195548442.

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