The problems involved in defining and describing a visual aesthetic suited to our modern democratic society are at the centre of this collection of essays, all written during the past ten years. Bernard Smith explores these problems, not only in their Australian but in their universal context, and in such areas as community art, art and elitism, Aboriginal art, art and the urban society, art in a multi-cultural society, art and abstraction, art and Marxism. They have been written in order to develop a greater theoretical interest in the problems facing Australian art and culture.
- ISBN10 0195548450
- ISBN13 9780195548457
- Publish Date March 1989 (first published 29 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 September 2002
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 344
- Language English