by Terry Smith
SEEING ART HISTORICALLY TODAY:
WHERE WE ARE AND WAYS TO GO
Talk by Professor Terry Smith
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
July 20, 2016, 7:15pm
Join us for this special talk to launch Hegel’s owl: the life of Bernard Smith by Sheridan Palmer and the new volume The legacies of Bernard Smith: essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics with Professor Terry Smith, as he addresses the contemporary state of art history in Australia and internationally.
Over 60 years ago Bernard Smith, Australia’s first professional art historian, left Australia for London to pursue the discipline, where he encountered numerous competing methods that informed his practice.
This talk will look at the contexts in which art historians operate today. What are the prevailing, contending and emerging approaches to the discipline? What are the ongoing tasks, and the urgent issues?
Terry Smith is Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent book is Talking contemporary curating (2015).
This talk is co-presented by the Art Gallery Society of NSW and the University of Sydney’s Power Institute. The legacies of Bernard Smith: essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics is published by Power Publications and the Art Gallery of NSW, supported by the Art Gallery Society of NSW and the University of Melbourne.
