MS 8680 Papers of Bernard Smith (1916- )
- Papers
- 1938-99
- 1.12m (8 boxes)
- Available for reference
These papers were donated to the National Library by Professor Bernard
Smith in instalments received in 1995 (two consignments), 1996, 1997 (two
consignments) 1998, 1999 and 2000.
The papers include correspondence (principally with Jack Lindsay,
1979-88), handwritten drafts, notes and typescripts of talks, lectures,
addresses, book reviews and articles. There are a large number of drafts of
articles, later published in journals and newspapers such as Meanjin, Art
and Australia and the Age.
Bernard Smiths arrangement of the papers has been preserved by the
Library and this finding-aid is based on his own listings.
The papers are typescripts, unless indicated otherwise.
Bernard Smith, art historian, lecturer and critic, was born in 1916 and
grew up in the Sydney suburb of Burwood. He studied at the Sydney
Teachers College 1934-35, the University of Sydney 1945-48, the Courtauld
Institute of Art and Warburg Institute, London, 1948-49, and completed his PhD
at the Australian National University in 1953-54.
Smiths professional career as a teacher led to his appointment as
education officer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1945-52. He lectured
at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne from 1955, and was
appointed Reader, 1964-66. During this period he was also art critic for the
Melbourne Age. Smith was Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of
the Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney University, 1967-77. A Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities, Smith was president, 1977-80.
Smiths first major publication was Place, taste and
tradition (1945). During his time at the University of Sydney, his
publications included The architectural character of Glebe, Sydney
(1974), editor, Documents on art and taste in Australia: the colonial
period, 1770-1914 (1975), Concerning contemporary art: the Power
Lectures, 1968-73 (1975) and The Antipodean manifesto: essays in art
and history (1976). Other publications include European vision and the
South Pacific, 1768-1850 (1960), Australian painting 1788-1960
(1962), The art of Captain Cook's voyages (1985-87), Imagining the
Pacific (1992) and Noel Counihan: artist and revolutionary
(1993). The autobiography of his early years (1916-1940) was published in 1984
as The boy Adeodatus- the portrait of a lucky young bastard.
Description
| Folder
1 |
|
Correspondence between Jack
Lindsay and Bernard Smith, 1979-88. Relates mainly to the preparation of a
Lindsay festschrift Culture and history: essays presented to Jack
Lindsay (1984), but also to Lindsay's wish to sell his collection of Greek
and Roman antiquities. Also includes letters from Smith to Michael Wilding,
Robert Mackie and Professor Alexander Cambitiglou. |
Added 10 July 1995
| Folder
2 |
|
The Teachers' Federation
Art Society yearbook and exhibition catalogues 1938-43. |
Added 21 December 1995
In this addition, the item numbers relate to a list compiled by Bernard
Smith and located in the beginning of Folder 3.
| Folder
3 |
Item 1 |
Articles in Education
(1940-1943) relating to the NSW Teachers' Federation Art Society. |
| Folder
4 |
Item 2a |
'Tendencies in Modern
English Verse', thesis presented to the NSW Department of Education in
partial fulfilment of the teachers 'academic' classification to 1B. November
1940, 49p. |
|
2b |
'Tendencies in Modern
English Verse', original version as written, 107p. |
| Folder
5 |
Item 3a - c |
'Reversion and Growth in
Art', lecture first given to the NSW Teachers' Federation Art Society 16 Sept
1942, three versions (unpublished). |
|
4 |
'Three Rhythms in
contemporary Art', notes for a lecture given to the NSW Teachers' Federation
Art Society on 24 July 1940, 23p. |
|
5 |
'Paganini', notes after
attending the Monte Carlo Diaghilev Ballet in Sydney 1940, 3p. |
| Folder
6 |
Item 6 |
'Paper on Surrealism', to
the NSW Teachers' Federation Art Society 16 October 1940, 12p. (As part of a
symposium of three papers, with the others given by James Gleeson and Albert
Tucker). |
|
7 |
Notes for the opening of
the 1940 annual exhibition of the NSW Teachers' Federation Art Society, 3p.
(incomplete). |
|
8 |
Notes for a talk to the
Australian Youth Council, c.1940, 6p.(ms) |
|
9 |
Notes for a talk to the
Australian Youth Council (after its banning as a Communist front organisation)
8p. |
|
10a-b |
Egyptian Art', lecture to
the Teachers' Federation Art Society 25 June 1941, 25p. (Two versions,
unpublished:. 22p. and 25p.) |
| Folder
7 |
Item 11 |
Art Notes for
Education, NSW Teachers' Federation Art Journal October 1941, 2p. |
|
12 |
'Some problems connected
with the Marxist approach to art criticism', c.1941-42, 2p. |
|
13 |
'Paper on Soviet Art',
published in Soviet Culture - A selection of talks at the Cultural
Conference, November 1941 Aid Russia Committee, Sydney 1942, 12p. |
|
14 |
'The Macabre Element in
late Medieval Art', lecture to the Teachers' Federation Art Society 1943,
20p. |
|
15 |
'Summary of the lecture on
Macabre Elements in late Medieval Art', 2p. |
|
16 |
'A summary of the
Development of Australian Painting', c. 1943, 12p. |
| Folder
8 |
Item 17 |
'Art and Mr Lawlor',
Australian Quarterly March 1943, 11p. |
|
18 |
'Country Art
Exhibitions', Society of Artists Year Book, 1944, 2p. |
|
19 |
Commentary for 'Our Great
Ally', film strip for the Aid Russia Committee, 1944, 16p. |
|
20 |
'What's the Use of Art'. I.
A broadcast talk with Mrs John Moore 2BL 3.20pm 14 April 1945. |
|
21 |
'What's the use of Art' II.
2BL 3.20pm 28 April 1945. |
|
22 |
Talk to the Dubbo Council
on 'Travelling Art Exhibitions' 19 June 1945. |
|
23 |
'Australian Art',
Australian Blue Book, July 1945 |
| Folder
9 |
Item 24 |
Material written for the
Catalogue of the Art Exhibition held in conjunction with the twenty fifth
anniversary of the Communist Party of Australia, August 1945. |
|
25 |
'Art Exhibitions in Country
Centres' Society of Artists Year Book, 1945. |
|
26 |
'Taking Art to Country
Centres: the work of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales Country
Exhibition Scheme', broadcast talk 2BL 9.20 pm 26 October 1945, 7p. |
|
27 |
Notes on the 'Teaching of
creative art', written for George Blakemore, Inspector of Schools,
Murwillumbah, 27 October 1945, 3p. |
|
28 |
'Drawings by Paul Beadle
and Hal Missingham', Progress, November 1945, 2p. |
|
29 |
'Country Art Exhibitions',
broadcast over Grafton Broadcasting Station, 3 December 1945, 5p. |
|
30 |
'Noel Counihan',
Present day Art in Australia, Ure Smith Ltd, 1945, 1p. |
|
31 |
'Art and Imperialism',
notes for a lecture (probably not given) c.1945, 35p. (ms) |
|
32 |
Notes on 'Realism in Art'
for a lecture to the Sydney University Labour Club, 2 August 1945, 5p.(ms) |
|
33 |
Notes for opening of
Elizabeth Durack's Exhibition, Sydney c.1945, 3p. |
|
34 |
Introduction to the
catalogue of the exhibition, Australian Watercolours, Travelling Art
Exhibitions - Art Gallery of NSW, 1945, 5p. (ms) |
| Folder
10 |
Item 35 |
'Art Chronicle',
Meanjin, Winter 1945. |
|
36 |
'Australian Art and the
War', 1945, 2p. |
|
37 |
'Realism in Australian Art'
1p. (incomplete). |
|
38 |
Notes on 'The Nature of
Realism in Art' c.1945, 4p. (ms) |
|
39 |
'Australian art',
Australia, edited by Hartley Grattan, University of California, United
Nations Series, 1947, 15p. |
|
40 |
Article on the work of
Dobell and Drysdale, 8p (some typed on both sides). |
|
41 |
'On looking at Paintings',
notes for a CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts) talk
c.1946, 1p. |
|
42 |
'The Angels Sing: a
commentary on art criticism in Australia', 9p (unpublished response to an
unfavourable review of Place, Taste and Tradition, 1945). |
|
43 |
'The Roland Pope
Collection', Newcastle, 1p. |
|
44 |
'The Encouragement of Art',
Australian New Writing, 3 February 1945. |
|
45 |
'Art Exhibitions in Country
Centres', 1946. |
|
46 |
'The Art of Justin
O'Brien', 1947, 3p. (written at the request of Sydney Ure Smith for a London
client. O'Brien had an exhibition at the Hanover Galleries, London in
1952). |
| Folder
11 |
Item 47 |
'Russell Drysdale',
10p. |
|
48 |
'Art Chronicle',
Meanjin, 1946, 3p. |
|
49 |
'Roderick Shaw',
Progress, March l946, 2p. |
|
50 |
Notes for lecture on
'Primitive Art' for SORA Studio of Realist Art, 2 April 1946. |
|
51 |
'The Art of Russell
Drysdale', 3p. |
|
52 |
'Country Art Exhibitions',
talk in Tamworth, August 1946. |
|
53 |
'The Art Museum Today'
Meanjin 3 (2), 1946, 9p. |
|
54 |
English 1 exercise in
taste, set by Wesley Milgate. Department of English evening course, University
of Sydney, l946. |
|
55 |
Honi Soit review
of the Australian University Students National Art Exhibition held at Sydney
University in June l947. |
|
56 |
'Some notes and comments on
the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Art Prize Awards for 1947', Meanjin,
Febuary 1948. |
|
57 |
'100 Years of Australian
Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Celebrating the Centenary of Public
Education in NSW', April 1948. |
|
58 |
Comments on the Art Gallery
of NSW administration, conservation etc. submitted to Professor E.G.Waterhouse,
one of the Trustees, at his request, 14 May 1948. |
|
59 |
'Foreword', Studio of
Realist Art Exhibition, David Jones Gallery, August 1948. |
|
60 |
'Australian Art in 1938 and
1948', talk to SORA (Studio of Realist Art), 8 August 1948. |
| Folder
12 |
Item 61 |
'Adrian Feint Flower
Paintings', edited by Ure Smith, Australian Book Society, October
1948 |
|
62 |
'Sali Herman',
Meanjin 8 (3) 1948. |
|
63 |
'The New Realism in
Australian Art', Meanjin, 1944. |
|
64 |
The Art of William Dobell', Tribune, Feb 1944 (edited
version was published). |
|
65 |
'Australian Art and the
War', April 1944, submitted to Harry Gould, Communist Party of Australia, for
the journal New Masses. |
| Folder
13 |
Item 66 |
'Adult Aesthetic
Education', presented to the NSW Department of Education as a thesis towards
the second part of a requirement towards the teachers' lb classification, 28
June 1944 (also photocopy of this ). |
|
67 |
150 Years of Painting in
Australia', talk given over 2WG Wagga, Part I. 10 October l944. |
|
68 |
Part II of the above talk,
11 October 1944. |
|
69 |
Notes written for J.G.
McKenzie, Director General of Education, for the Manly Art Gallery's
Twenty-first year celebrations, 6 March 1945. |
| Folder
14 |
Item 70 |
'Art and Environment in
Australia', Geographical Magazine, London, January 1947. |
|
71 |
'The English Portraits of
William Dobell', ARNA (the Sydney University Magazine), June
1947. |
|
72 |
'The Critic and the Cackle'
(written at the request of Sydney Ure Smith but rejected by his assistant, Gwen
Morton Spencer, after which 'Comments on Style Change and Criticism' was
written and published in the Society of Artists Year Book for
1947). |
|
73 |
Review of Clive Turnbull's
book, Art Here, 1947. |
|
74 |
Review of Brian Penton's
book, William Dobell published by Ure Smith, c.1947. |
|
75 |
Review of Douglas Stewart's
play, Shipwreck, for Southerly September 1947, 3p. |
| Folder
15 |
Item 76 |
Notes on the history of
Australian art, 2 vols. c.1943. (ms) |
Added 12 December 1996
| Folder
16 |
|
Art in the
Country, National Art Gallery of NSW, c.1946 (an account of the first
year, 1944-45, of the country art exhibition project established by Smith while
on secondment to the National Art Gallery of NSW from the NSW Education
Department). |
|
|
Catalogue for the
exhibition, Some recent Australian painting, National Art Gallery and
Department of Education NSW, Canberra, December 1944 (according to Smith, this
was probably the first time that contemporary Australian painting was shown
publicly in Canberra. The exhibition was in the Scouts' Hall, a quarter mile
from the Kurrajong Hotel). |
Added 27 March 1997
| Folder
17 |
Item 1 |
The Interpretation of
Australian Nature during the Nineteenth Century. English Hons. BA Thesis.
Sydney University, 1952. |
| Folder
18 |
Item 2 |
Schedule of lectures and
notes on the History of Painting for a course of lectures given to the School
of Architecture. NSW University of Technology, June- July 1953. |
|
2a |
Review of M. H. Ellis,
Francis Greenway his Life and Times (Historical Studies, May,
1955) |
|
3 |
Archibald, Wynne and
Sulman Prizes for 1953 (Meanjin, no.1, 1954). |
|
4 |
Talk on the 'noble savage'
to a seminar at the ANU in 1954 or 1955. |
|
5 |
Notes for opening of
Charles Doutney's first one-man show at the Macquarie Gallery, Sydney |
|
6 |
'Australian
sculpture. For the News and Information Bureau. June 1953. |
|
7 |
Art in the Dog Days',
published in Meanjin xii, 55-58 |
|
8 |
Australian colonial
art. Unpublished lecture. Department of Fine Arts, Melbourne, 29
September 1953. |
|
9 |
The Emergence of
Australian Painting. Lecture to the recently-formed National Gallery
Society of New South Wales, 1953. |
|
10 |
French Painting
Today (Voice, 1953). |
| Folder
19 |
Item 11 |
The French Art
Exhibition, Meanjin, xii 165 |
|
12 |
Synopsis for a series of
lectures, University of Sydney, 26 March 1953. |
|
13 |
The Australian
Scene, lecture given at Sydney University, 26 March 1953. |
|
14 |
William Hodges,
paper probably given to the History Department Seminar, University of
Melbourne, 1953 |
|
15 |
'The Celebration of
Transience, lecture, University of Sydney, 7 April 1954. Published in
The Antipodean Manifesto (1976). |
|
16 |
'New Light and the Ancient
Mariner, paper given to a seminar at the Australian National University,
1954 or 1955. |
|
17 |
Notes for opening of Moya
Dyring's exhibition, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 5 October 1956. |
|
18 |
'The Genesis of Australian
Art, talk to the History Association, University of Melbourne, July
1956. |
|
19 |
Notes for opening of the
NUAUS ( National Union of Australian University Students) Exhibition,
Melbourne, July, 1956. |
|
20 |
Introduction to
exhibition of painting and drawing. Fine Arts Exhibition. Olympic Games,
Melbourne, August 1956. Published in The Arts Festival of the Olympic
Games Melbourne, 1956 |
| Folder
20 |
Item 21 |
Article on 'Australian Art'
written in April 1956 for the Oxford Companion to Art (ed Harold
Osborne, 1970) The Interpretation of Australian Nature during the
Nineteenth Century. English Hons. BA Thesis. Sydney University,
1952. |
|
22 |
Notes for Exhibition of
Paintings by John Perceval. Australian Galleries, Collingwood, November
1956. |
|
23 |
Notes on the 'Art and life
of Charles Doutney, Meanjin, Nov. 1957. |
|
24 |
The
Antipodeans, talk at the Annual Dinner, Fellowship of Australian Writers,
Society Restaurant, 1 Sept 1959 |
|
25 |
Article for Australia
today on the Antipodeans, 1959 |
|
26 |
Reply to William Hannon re
his article on the Antipodeans in Prospect ,iii, no.1 |
|
27 |
Address at the presentation
of diplomas, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Published in Art
Education Today. |
|
28 |
Notes based on comments by
Bernard Smith at the Arts Faculty Meetings, Melbourne University, 4 August
1960. [most of the notes were compiled subsequent to the meeting] |
|
29 |
'William Westall's drawings
and paintings on Flinders Voyage, published in Westall's Drawings
( ed.D. Simpson) 1962. |
|
30 |
Udo Sellbach's Etching
series 'The Target is Man' [1962?] |
| Folder
21 |
Item 31 |
ABC Talk, Art
Criticism, 16 July 1964 |
|
32 |
'Nolan's Image' published
in The London Magazine, Sept, 1962. |
|
33 |
Address at opening of the
Mildura Sculpture Exhibition, Mildura Art Gallery, 18 April 1963. |
|
34 |
The Adelaide Festival of
the Arts. 1964 |
|
35 |
Sir Herbert Read and
the Power Bequest published in Meanjin, March 1964.
|
|
36 |
Age, Draft for
article on B. Berenson |
|
37 |
Age, Draft on
article recent art publications |
|
38 |
Age, Draft on NGV
catalogue: 'The Art of Drawing' |
|
39 |
Age Art Notes. 10
Feb. 1964 |
|
40 |
Age, The
33rd Biennale.Venice. |
| Folder
22 |
Item 41 |
Age, Recent
British Sculpture. |
|
42 |
The Felton
Bequest, comp. by Daryl Lindsay |
|
43 |
Age,
Australian painters by John Hetherington. |
|
44 |
Age, Australian
Painting Today by J.D. Pringle. |
|
45 |
Age, Tom
Roberts, his life and work |
|
46 |
Age, The
Masters |
|
47 |
Twenty-Five Years of
Contemporary Art, talk to CAS Sydney, 23 Oct. 1963. |
|
48 |
Art Notes,
Age, 15 April 1963 |
|
49 |
Moya Dyring
Opening, Australian Galleries, May 1960 |
|
50 |
Two Literary Fund lectures
given at Newcastle University College. |
| Folder
23 |
Item 51 |
Review of Art in
Queensland by Vida Lahey, Meanjin, August 1960 |
|
52 |
David Boyd's Adelaide
Exhibition, May-June 1960 |
|
53 |
Notes for the opening of
David Boyd's Adelaide Exhibition |
|
54 |
Charles Conder. his
Australian years by Ursula Hoff. National Gallery Society of Victoria,
1960. |
|
55 |
The John Murtagh Macrossan
Lectures for 1961. First Brisbane lecture, later published |
|
56 |
Dobell's Art.
Only parts of this essay have been published elsewhere |
|
57 |
Survey of the Year's
Art. Gallery Society, NGV 1964. |
|
58 |
Elwyn Lynn exhibition. Kym
Bonython Gallery, 1967 |
|
59 |
The Melbourne
Gericault (Art Bulletin NGV). |
|
60 |
Whither
Painting? Arts Council WEA Lecture, Newport, 30 Sept 1967. (ms) |
| Folder
24 |
Item 61 |
The
Antipodeans, 1964? |
|
62 |
Britannica Award to William
Dobell. Notes, 1964 |
|
63 |
Statement tended to the
Woollahra City Council embodying objections to the widening of Jersey Road,
Paddington, NSW. 1967. |
|
64 |
The Power Art Bequest for
Hemisphere |
|
65 |
Lecture to Senior History
Students Conference, Newington College. 28 Aug. 1967 |
|
66 |
Sculpture
abroad. Mildura Sculpture Exhibition, 1967. |
|
66 |
The Art Museum and
the University, Art Galleries Association, National Gallery of Victoria,
1967. |
|
67 |
Graduation Address,
University of Sydney, 1967 |
|
68 |
The total meaning of
the Work. Notes for lecture to residents, St Paul's College, Sydney
University. |
|
69 |
The Power Bequest
Exhibition, 1968. Catalogue entry. |
|
70 |
The Power Art
Bequest. Reply to correspondents of the Sydney Morning
Herald, probably late 1967 |
| Folder
25 |
Item 71 |
The Power Bequest
Exhibition, 1968, article for Art and Australia |
|
72 |
Opening. The Blake Prize
for Religious Art, 1968 |
|
73 |
David Boyd,
lecture, Commonwealth Institute, London. 1969. |
|
74 |
Notes for opening Power
Exhibition Italian Exhibition,14 April 1969 |
|
75 |
Notes for introducing
Christopher Wallace, Lecture Theatre, Sydney University, 20 Oct. 1969 |
|
76 |
Notes for opening Craft
Association, August 1969 |
|
77 |
Talk to the National Trust
(NSW), Sydney, 27 Oct 1969 |
|
78 |
Review of J. M. Freeland,
Architecture in Australia, 1968. Published in Historical
Studies |
|
79 |
Power Bequest and
Adult Education, Week-End School, Newport, Oct? 1967. |
|
80 |
Talk for the Australian
Council for Cultural Freedom, Sunday 29 July 1967 |
|
81 |
Desiderius
Orban, exhibition, Brummels Gallery, Melbourne 2 June 1957 |
|
82 |
Notes for talk on
Myth and the Visual Arts' for Adult Education, 1968? (ms) |
Added 20 June 1997
(Papers 1950-1969)
| Folder
26 |
|
Exhibition catalogue
entitled "Antipodeans 4-15 Aug.1959". Artists exhibiting in this exhibition
were Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Bob Dickerson, John
Perceval and Clifton Pugh. The catalogue is introduced by 'The Antipodean
Manifesto' which was also signed by Bernard Smith. According to Smith, the
Manifesto created a major controversy in art circles that is still
unresolved. |
Added 16 January 1998
(published and unpublished 1970 1980)
| Folder
27 |
Item 1 |
The Power Institute
of Fine Arts', published as 'Sydney's Power Institute of Fine Arts', Studio
International, 1970 pp 142-144, ill. |
|
2 |
Foreword to Dr Norman
Behan's collection [Brisbane]. |
|
3 |
Note on the art of Guy
Boyd, 12 May 1970 |
|
4 |
The University and
its Neighbourhood', published in The Union Recorder,
May 1971. |
|
5 |
Review of Donald F. Lach's
Asia in the making of Europe Vol 2, Chicago University Press, 1970,
published in the American Historical Review, 23 Oct. 1971 |
|
6 |
Review of John
Hetherington, Norman Lindsay the Embattled Olympian, Melbourne
University Press, 1973 |
|
7 |
Review of Architecture
for the New World. The Work of Harry Seidler by Peter Blake, Horwitz,
Sydney 1973. |
|
8 |
Preface to Merric Boyd
Drawings, Secker and Warburg, London, 1975. |
|
9 |
Art and Industry.Response
to a critique by Jonathan Benthall of my article 'Art and Industry' published
in Studio International, April 1974. |
|
10 |
Teaching Fine Arts in the
Australian Universities in 1974 (two versions) |
|
11 |
Dr John Wardell
Power (1881-1943). |
|
12 |
The Art Museum and
the University |
|
13 |
Three critics of the
1890s, seminar on the 1890s, Humanities Research Centre, Canberra. |
|
14 |
The Power Institute
of Fine Arts (1969?) |
|
15 |
The Whitlam
Government and Visual Arts. Draft notes. |
| Folder
28 |
Item 16 |
Draft notes for a book on
'Art and the Industrial System' submitted to Phaidon Press, Oxford. |
|
17 |
Article on 'Australian
Painting' for the Grolier Australian Encyclopaedia, October 1973. |
|
18 |
Robert Hughes, Art of
Australia, 1970. 2 reviews for Historical Studies, 1973 |
|
19 |
Copies of two letters
published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July and October 1974
(newspaper cuttings) |
|
20 |
'The New Commonwealth
Patronage and the Arts', article for the Age, National Review, July
1974 |
|
21 |
On Perceiving the
Australian Suburb |
|
22 |
Making the Future',
Spode House Review, Feb 1974 |
|
23 |
'Modern Masters - Manet to
Matisse: Review of the exhibition for Art and Australia |
|
24 |
Review of Noel
Counihan by Max Dimmack, MUP, 1974 |
|
25 |
The Teaching of Fine
Arts in Australian Universities |
|
26 |
Review of Historic
Houses of Australia, Cassell, 1974 |
|
27 |
Notes for a vote of thanks
to William Lieberman after his talk on the 'Manet to Matisse' Exhibition,
AGNSW |
|
28 |
Copy of review of
The Loaded Line by M. Mahood, MUP 1973. |
|
29 |
'Ludwig Herschfeld Mack and
Lionel Feininger.' Address at the opening of the Exhibition, AGNSW July 1974.
|
| Folder
29 |
Item 30 |
Review of Leonard B.
Cox, The National Gallery of Victoria 1861 to 1968 [1974] |
|
31 |
Unpublished draft of an
article on 'Style and Choice in Art'. (ms) |
|
32 |
'Artist, Craftsman and
Community' |
|
33 |
The Local and the
Universal in Australian Colonial Landscape Painting', given at Seminar of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities [ 1975] |
|
34 |
Draft of an article on
'Elitism and the Arts' for Meanjin |
|
35 |
Address 'Artists for Labor'
Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, 1 Dec 1975. |
|
36 |
Vote of thanks following
the opening of the Sylvia Snowden exhibition at the Seymour Centre, University
of Sydney, Sept 1975. |
|
37 |
'The Australian Government
and the Visual Arts. Is it a Labor Policy? and another version subtitled
Is there another way? |
|
38 |
A response to John Bailey. |
|
39 |
Introductory remarks. Art
Association of Australia, 16 Aug. 1975, AGNSW. |
|
40 |
Newspaper cutting How
an Expressway would destroy Glebe. Sydney Morning
Herald, 24 June 1975. |
|
41 |
'Lawson Balfour' article
for the Australian Dictionary of Biography |
|
42 |
'Australian Painting' for
United Asia |
| Folder
30 |
Item 43 |
Co-operative Workshops in
England )originally part of the 'Death of the Artist as Hero' lecture.) |
|
44 |
Original draft of the
'Death of the Artist as Hero' lecture. 1976 |
|
45 |
'Death of the Artist as
Hero' for Meanjin , 1977. |
|
46 |
Statement to The
Australian, 19 Jan 1976. |
|
47 |
Review of David Meek,
Social Science and the Ignoble Savage, Cambridge University
Press. |
|
48 |
Opening remarks, Art
Association of Australia Seminar, AGNSW 1976. |
|
49 |
Review of The Tactless
Philosopher by Michael Hoare, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1976. The
Canberra Times, 4 Sept 1976. |
|
50 |
Draft notes for a talk on
community workshops. |
|
51 |
Hans Arp opening, AGNSW May
1977. |
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Item 52 |
'The Mode of production
suited to Human Beings', ABC Radio, 10 April 1977. Published in
Habitat 1978 |
|
53 |
'Art as Information'. Two
drafts. |
|
54 |
Cook's posthumous
reputation. Summary paper and essay. |
|
55 |
'How Provincial is
Australian Culture?' Deakin University 1978. |
|
56 |
John Peter Russell
1858-1930. Exhibition for Gallery Society, Feb. 1978 |
|
57 |
The Art of John Peter
Russell by Ann Galbally, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1977. Two drafts. |
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Item 58 |
Cook's Artists and
Pacific Peoples. Two drafts. |
|
59 |
Art in the Service of
Science |
|
60 |
Preface to the second
edition of Place, Taste and Tradition together with additional notes
for second edition. |
|
61 |
Review of Humphrey McQueen,
The Black Swan of Trespass, Sydney, 1979. |
|
62 |
Review of Bougainville
et ses Compagnons autour du Monde 1766-1769 for the Journal of Pacific
History |
|
63 |
Review of Robert
Goldwater's Symbolism for the Age |
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Item 64 |
Review of Gavan Daws, A
Dream of Islands |
|
65 |
Melbourne and Sydney:
Two Art Systems for Meanjin |
|
66 |
The Boyer Lectures
1980. For the ABC |
Added 14 January 1999
(Papers written between 1980 and 1990)
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Item 1 |
Art in the service of science (written as an introduction
to vols 1 and 2 of The art of Captain Cooks voyages, but later
abandoned) |
|
2 |
Captain Cook: artists and the portrayal of Pacific
peoples: lecture given at the Museum of Mankind, London. |
|
3 |
Review of Gary Catalanos Years of Hope: Australian
art and criticism 1959 1968, for Island Magazine, 1981.
|
| |
4 |
Review of The shock of the new by Robert Hughes for an
ABC talk, March 1981. |
| |
5 |
William Hodges and Plein air painting, talk first
given at the Sandby Colloquium, Hamilton Art Gallery, October 1981 and later
published in Art History, Vol 6 No 2 June 1983. |
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Item 6 |
Draft of an opening talk at Apmira Art Exhibition, Paddington
Town Hall, Sydney, 23 October 1981. |
|
7 |
Review of Victorian treasures from the La Trobe
Collection by Ann Glover; State Library of Victoria published in the
Australian Book Review, 1981. |
|
8 |
Communism and the Visual Arts in the 1940s
review of Rebels and Precursors by Richard Haese for the Age
Monthly Review, 2 October 1981. |
| |
9 |
Draft of talk at the launching of Richard Haeses
Rebels and precursors, October 1981, State Library of Victoria. |
| |
10 |
Review of Augustus Earle travel artist by Jocelyn
Hackforth Jones for the Australian Book Review, Feb 1981. |
| |
11 |
Jesse Jewhurst Hider (1881-1916) for the
Australian Dictionary of Biography. |
| |
12 |
Sidney Dickinson (1851-1919) for the Australian
Dictionary of Biography. |
| |
13 |
Fred Williams in Context for Meanjin, Feb
1981. |
| |
14 |
Review of Murray Bails Ian Fairweather for
Island Magazine. |
| |
15 |
Review of Robert Smiths Noel Couihans Prints
a catalogue in Raisonne. |
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Item 16 |
Review of the first issue of the Australian Art Review
for the Age, November 1982. |
|
1 7 |
Review of Race relations in Australian history by A.T.
Yarwood and M.J. Knowling, 1982 for the Sydney Morning Herald,
November 1982. |
|
18 |
Early draft of a review of Felicity St John Moores
Vassilieff and his art for the Sydney Morning Herald,
November 1982. |
| |
19 |
Review of A.J. Bakers, Andersons social
philosophy for Australian Historical Studies. |
| |
20 |
Jack Lindsays Biography of Artists for his
festschrift, Culture and history, edited by Bernard Smith. |
| |
21 |
Art galleries and the teaching of art history for
the Association of Australian Art Conference, Sydney, 7 August 1982. |
| |
22 |
Review of Father John Peters People of the Sacred
Mountain, for the Age 27 April 1982. |
| |
23 |
Notes for a talk (not given) My Role in the art of the
1940s requested by David Bromfield to give to the School of Art in
Hobart. |
| |
24 |
Review of Jack Lindsays The Crisis in Marxism
for Bowyang, January 1982 |
| |
25 |
Review of Art and Text vols 1-4 for the Age
Monthly Review, March 1982 |
| |
26 |
History talk to Half Time: Architects Ex
Student Group, Melbourne Architecture School, 24 July 1982. |
| |
27 |
Letter to Age Monthly Review apologising to John Reid
late 1981. |
| |
28 |
The Painter as a potter Art Exhibition National
Gallery of Victoria, 9 December 1982. |
| |
29 |
Australian culture: five options given at the
Commonwealth Writers Week, Brisbane 29 September 1982. Published in
Occasional papers of the Australian Studies Centre (Humanities and
Social Sciences), University of Queensland. |
| |
30 |
Background copy for Channel 2 talk with Robyn Williams on the
Art of Cooks Voyages, 10 August 1982. |
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Item 31 |
Social Realism in the 1940s talk for Leigh Astbury
at Monash University. |
|
32 |
Lot and Pompeii: two paintings from the 1940s
Art and Text 7, Spring 1982. |
|
33 |
Jack Lindsays achievement drafts of talk
given in Brisbane, 1982. |
| |
33a |
Drysdale and the hegemony of landscape Review of
the Life and work of Russell Drysdale by Lou Kelpac, Age Monthly
Review. |
| |
34 |
The first drawings of Australian Aborigines, in
Seeing the first Australians by Ian and Tamsin Donaldson. |
| |
35 |
Aspects of Australian figurative painting: 1942-1962:
dreams, fears and desires. Two versions of a paper written for the John
Power Foundation forum 12 June 1984. Another version of this paper was also
presented at Monash University on 13 September 1984. |
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Item 36 |
Review of Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cooks Endeavour
voyage by D.J Carr, written for the Journal of Pacific History
but not published. |
|
37 |
Forward to Charles Merewethers exhibition Art and
social commitment Art Gallery of NSW, November 1984. |
|
38 |
Talk about The Boy Adeodatus, National Book Council
Luncheon, 15 August 1984. |
| |
39 |
Review of Just city and the mirrors by Lynne Strachan
for Historical Studies, completed November 1984. |
| |
40 |
Opening talk at exhibition of the Captain Cook Study Unit,
Queens Hall, State Library of Victoria, 21 September 1984. |
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Item 41 |
On Cultural Convergence paper written for Jenny
Zimmer at RMIT, 30 April 1985. Completed 1986. |
|
42 |
On Marxist Aesthetics for CAMARP July 1985
(drafts). |
|
43 |
Marx and Aesthetic Value Completed January 1986,
published in The death of the artist as hero: essays in history and
culture. |
| |
44 |
Apollos Vanguard: the popular and the classic in
the Hinton Collection, published in The death of the artist as hero: essays
in history and culture. |
| |
45 |
"Jack Lindsays Marxism, written for the Marxist
Conference Merewether Building Sydney, January 1985. Published in The death
of the artist as hero: essays in history and culture. |
| Folder
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Item 46 |
Talk in the Accepting a challenge series at the
Australian Academy of the Humanities, AGM, in 1985 or 1986. |
|
47 |
Greece and the European colonisation of the
Pacific, first given at the conference on Ancient Hellenism, Greek
colonists and native populations Sydney University, July 1985. Later
published in Greek colonists and native populations edited by
Jean-Paul Descoeudres, 1990 and Imagining the Pacific, 1992. |
|
48 |
The use and value of catalogues of the permanent
collections of our public art galleries, Margaret Carengie Seminar
Documentation of Australian art, Riverina College of Advanced
Education c.1986. Later published as The Art Museum and Public
Accountability in The death of the artist as hero: essays in history
and culture |
| |
49 |
The functions of art on Cooks voyages
(several drafts). Given as the Dulcie Stretton Lecture, March 1985. |
| |
50 |
Review of To sail beyond the sunset by C.M. Finney,
1984, published in Historical Records of Australian Science. |
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Item 51 |
Review of June Helmers George Bell for the
Age. |
|
52 |
An Australian Impressionism? published in the
Age Monthly Review. |
|
53 |
History as Criticism. Talk for the History
Institute of Melbourne, 28 April 1985. |
| |
54 |
Is there a radical tradition in Australian art
later published in The death of the artist as hero: essays in history and
culture, 1988. |
| |
55 |
Art objects and historical usage for the AHA
Symposium Who owns the past, Canberra, 20 May 1983. Also read at
the Research Methodology Seminar Programme 1984, Department of Fine Arts
Melbourne, 9 May 1984. |
| |
56 |
Text of a tape for Penguins Sales Conference for The
Boy Adeodatus, 19 February 1984. |
| |
57 |
Review of The Artist and the river, by Sandra McGrath
for the Age, January 1983. |
| |
58 |
Material written in defence of Art and a Text A
against an impeding injunction by Paul Taylor on 12 January 1983. He, however,
withdrew the charges on 11 January 1983. |
| |
59 |
Notes on Abstract Art written for Jenny Zimmer,
RMIT Abstract Exhibition, August 1983. |
| |
60 |
A note on Changing Role of Artist in Society for
Community Arts, Ministry of the Arts Victoria, July 1983. |
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Item 61 |
Note for the Australian Book Review June 1983 on
The Antipodes observed: artists of Australia 1788-1850. |
|
62 |
Response to David Holbrooks review of Jack Lindsays
Life Rarely Tells for the Age Monthly Review, 1983. |
|
63 |
Notes for an opening address for an exhibition of Noel
Counihans art at Flinders University, 11 November 1984. |
| |
64 |
Notes for the opening of the James Cant exhibition, Art Gallery
of South Australia, 29 February 1984. |
| |
65 |
Who was the Port Jackson Painter?, talk at the
Canberra School of Art, 1986 and the Library Society of New South Wales, 26
April 1988. |
| |
66 |
Notes for the opening of the John Skinner Prout exhibition,
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 9 December 1986. |
| |
67 |
Notes for the opening of the Red Letter Press exhibition,
Melbourne, 27 November 1986. |
| |
68 |
Notes for the opening of the Cheer Up Children
exhibition, Museum of Victoria, 23 October 1986. |
| |
69 |
Art in its Social Setting Chapter written for
Australia since the British invasion: peoples history. |
| |
70 |
Early draft of an obituary on Noel Counihan for the
Tribune 14 July 1986. |
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Item 71 |
Address at the Memorial Ceremony for Noel Counihan, Camberwell
Civic Centre, July 1986. |
|
72 |
Reflections on the 1940s a talk given to the
Friends of Heide, at Heide Park , Sunday 13 July 1986. |
|
73 |
The Art of Owen Stanley written as an introduction
to a book that was never published provisionally entitled Owen Stanley.
His Australian and New Zealand watercolours and sketches, March
1986. |
| |
74 |
Talk given at Writers Week, Adelaide Festival of Arts, 6
March 1986. |
| |
75 |
Notes for the launching of The Art of Arthur Boyd by
Ursula Hoff, 29 April 1986. |
| |
75a |
Notes for biography of John Joseph Wadell Power for the
Australian Dictionary of Biography. |
| Folder
45 |
Item 76 |
Talk at opening of the Francis Lymburner exhibition, Erwin
Gallery, Sydney, February 1987. |
|
77 |
Depicting Pacific Peoples The Founders
Lecture, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, September
1987. |
|
78 |
Style, information and image in the art of Cooks
voyages; the Harkness Lecture, Christchurch, New Zealand, September
1987. |
| |
79 |
Article on Fred Williams for Modern Painters edited by
Peter Fuller, 1987. |
| |
80 |
The Australia Council and the Art and Working Life
Programme written for Steve Cassidy ACTU Arts Officer, 12 August
1987. |
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Item 81 |
Review of Ann Galballys The Collections of the
National Gallery of Victoria, for Meanjin 1987. |
|
82 |
Draft for review of Tim Bonyhadys Australian colonial
painting in the National Gallery, 1987. |
|
|
Draft notes for a review of vols 1 and 2 of
83Australians an historical survey. |
| |
83a |
Forward to Patricia Fullertons Hugh Ramsay,
September 1987. |
| |
84 |
An Australian contribution to British art?, lecture
given at the Royal Society London 1988. |
| |
85 |
Forward to First views of Sydney by Tim
McCormick. |
| Folder
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Item 86 |
Article on Donald Brooks New Theory of Art.
Published in Meanjin. |
|
87 |
Notes for the opening of Other landscapes: art from
political and social concerns, 1988. |
|
88 |
Taking art to the country, Regional Galleries
Association, February 1988. |
| |
89 |
The art of Aboriginal Australia; review of Peter
Suttons book Dreamings the art of Aboriginal Australia, 1988.
|
| |
90 |
Introductory essay to Part Two of the Terra Australis
Catalogue, Art Gallery New South Wales. |
| Folder
48 |
Item 91 |
Draft for a review of Humphrey McQueens book Suburbs
of the sacred. |
|
92 |
Boyer Lectures, 1988. |
|
93 |
Opening talk at the exhibition First impressions: the
British discovery of Australia, Australian Museum, Sydney, 21 September
1988. |
| |
94 |
Book launch of the eleventh volume of the Australian
Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University, 17 October 1988. |
| |
95 |
Talk at the Melbourne Living Museum of West Footscray,
Back in your own backyard, 19 October 1988. |
| Folder
49 |
Item 96 |
The Unknown Art of Australia. An essay in form and
meaning. Written for the Australian edition of the UNESCO
Courier. |
|
97 |
Review of Peter Fullers Theoria, January 1989,
published in Australian Society. |
|
98 |
Review of Fernand Braudels The identity of France, vol
1: history and environment for Scripsi, 31 July 1989. |
| |
99 |
Review of George Steiners Real presences for
Australian society, December 1989. |
| |
100 |
Talk, Angry Penguins and Realist Paining in Melbourne
during the 1940s given at the National Gallery of Victoria, 1989.
Later published in The Independent, Sydney. |
| Folder
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Item 101 |
The Windsor Group, written for Roderick Shaw, 1987.
|
|
102 |
Cooks Voyage: vision of the South Pacific.
Lecture given to the Library Society State Library of New South Wales, 11 June
1989. |
|
103 |
Peter Cowans The hills of Apollo Bay, ABC talk
for Jill Kitson. |
| |
104 |
Review of Andrew Sayers Drawing in Australia for
Australian Society, May 1989. |
| |
105 |
Talk given at Kate Smiths funeral service, 11 January
1989. |
| |
106 |
Brief note on the proposed folio of prints by artists to honour
the memory of Noel Counihan planned by Graham King but never published,
February 1989. |
| |
107 |
Australian art and British arrogance published in
Modern Painters, London under another title. |
| |
108 |
A reply to my critics, a response to criticisms in
the Necessity of Australian art, by Ian Burn et al, Fine Art
Department, Sydney University, May 1989. |
| |
109 |
Review of The road to Botany Bay by Paul Carter,
January 1988. |
Added 6 January 2000
(Papers written between 1991-1999)
| Folder 51 |
Item 110 |
'Robert Boynes', the preface to an exhibition catalogue
for a show held in the USA |
| |
111 |
Review of The quest for grace by Manning
Clark, published in the Independent Monthly, 7 October 1990 |
| |
112 |
Preface to Looking beyond yesterday, David
Headon (ed) |
| |
113 |
Drafts of an address given at the launching of the
Council for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) banner, 28 October
1990 |
| |
114 |
'Artists and unions', [1991?] |
| |
115 |
Speech at the opening of the retrospective exhibition
of work by Diana Mogensen, Dempster Gallery, Melbourne, 20 September 1991 |
| |
116 |
Answers to questions related to Australian art for the
ABC Open University, 19 September 1991 |
| |
117 |
Drafts of address at the opening of the Noel Counihan
retrospective exhibition, McClelland Gallery, 16 June 1991 |
| |
118 |
Drafts of 'Counihan and painting', 1991 |
| |
119 |
Notes relating to the Australian Association for Armed
Neutrality (AAAN), March 1991 |
| Folder 52 |
Item 120 |
Preface to Udo Sellbach's series of aquatints
Nightwatch, February 1991 |
| |
121 |
'Intellectual currents in Australia, 1930-1939'.
Lecture for the History Department, Australian National University, 1991
(unpublished) |
| |
122 |
'Francis Lymburner: a personal memoir', written for
Barry Pearce, Curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales for his
retrospective exhibition of Lymburner's work, July 1991 |
| |
123 |
'Geoffrey Bardon, Papunya Tula art of the Western
Desert', for Australian Society, October 1991 |
| |
124 |
Review of The colour of time: Claude Monet by
Virginia Spate for the Australian, November 1992 |
| |
125 |
Review of Making Australian art by Nancy D.H.
Underhill, written in September 1991 for the March issue of Art and Australia,
1992 |
| |
126 |
Obituary of Sir Joseph Burke, The Age, 3 April
1992 |
| |
127 |
Early draft entitled 'On modernism and postmodernism',
which ended with the writing of Modernism's history |
| |
128 |
'The two natures of art' and other drafts towards
Modernism's history |
| |
129 |
'Clifton Pugh and the Antipodeans', La Trobe University
Gallery, 14 November 1993 |
| Folder 53 |
Item 130 |
Address given at the launch of the catalogue of the
Newman College Collection, A deep sonorous thing, by Christopher
Marshall, 26 July 1993 |
| |
131 |
Address at the opening of the Richard Beck exhibition,
Joshua McClelland Gallery, Melbourne, 23 March 1993 |
| |
132 |
Review of the exhibition of works by Peter Kennedy,
'Chorus: from the breath of wings', Heide Park, 4 June 1993 |
| |
133 |
Review of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook by
Gananath Obeysekere, Princeton University Press, 1992 |
| |
134 |
Tribute to Roderick Shaw, 1915-1992, at the Memorial
Service, Waterside Workers' Federation, Sussex Street, Sydney, 6 March
1993 |
| |
135 |
'Modernism as a late nineteenth century style',
Australian Art Association Conference, La Trobe University, 14 November 1993
|
| |
136 |
Introduction for the catalogue of a retrospective of
the work of Geoff Hogg, Shepparton Art Gallery Exhibition, written 10 June
1993 |
| |
137 |
Talk to a teachers' group at the National Gallery of
Victoria on the occasion of a retrospective of the work of Arthur Boyd, 30
April 1994 |
| |
138 |
'Modernity and the formalesque', lecture given at the
Power Institute of the Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 18 October 1994 |
| |
139 |
'Four contemporary Koori artists', talk for the
Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies, 29 March 1994 |
| Folder 54 |
Item 140 |
'The architectural formalesque', draft of a chapter
eventually deleted from Modernism's history |
| |
141 |
'On being Antipodean', talk to a literary group in
Western Australia, March 1996 |
| |
142 |
'Deconstructing Europe', not published |
| |
143 |
Launch of E. Phillips Fox - his life and art
by Ruth Zubans, 4 September 1995 |
| |
144 |
'What does postmodernism mean?', for Helen Daniel,
editor of the Australian Book Review |
| |
145 |
Review of Heritage: the national women's art
book, Joan Kerr (ed), 1995 |
| |
146 |
Talk on postmodernism, Griffith University, Western
Australia, April 1996 |
| |
147 |
'Work in progress: aesthetic values', University of
Western Sydney, 10 September 1996 |
| |
148 |
'Reframing Mimesis' |
| |
149 |
Review of Art for art's sake by Gene M.
Bell-Villada, for Thesis 11 |
| Folder 55 |
Item 150 |
'The oil painting: Sydney in 1794', published in the
Australian Journal of Art |
| |
151 |
'Cultural imperialism and the formalesque', draft of
the last chapter of Modernism's history |
| |
152 |
Notes for an assessment of a thesis on Elwyn Lynn May
by Denise Mary Whitehouse, 1997 |
| |
153 |
Review of Modern Asian art by John Clark, for
Art Asia Pacific, December 1998 |
| |
154 |
'Modernism's history', talk at the Tate Gallery,
London, Septem | |