Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Biographical Overview -- 1 / Encountering Australia: European Vision and The South Pacific -- A half-century on: the legacy of European Vision and the South Pacific : Andrew Sayers -- 'My greatest debt': Bernard Smith, the Warburg Institute, and the evolution of European Vision and the South Pacific : Robert W. Gaston -- History, art history and museology in the Pacific : Nicholas Thomas -- Cooperation and friendship: in tribute to Bernard Smith : Rüdiger Joppien -- Photography and the triumph of science in European Vision and the South Pacific : Kathleen Davidson -- 2 / Defining Australian Art -- Bernard Smith: the art historian as hero : Terry Smith -- Bernard, wordsmith : Peter Beilharz -- Re-reading Bernard Smith on what constitutes Australian art : Catherine Speck -- Bernard Smith in space and time: 'The Antipodean Manifesto' fifty years later : Paul Giles -- Peter Fuller, the Celtic midwife and some [other] Northern critics of Southern art : Simon Pierse -- The life and the work: Australian art biography : John Clark -- Illustrations -- 3 / Bernard Smith and The Art Museum -- Contingency as the guard dog of history: Bernard Smith at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1944-48 : Steven Miller -- Bernard Smith and the professional art museum : Joanna Mendelssohn -- Mind the gap! Bernard Smith versus the museum, 1961 to 1995 : Christopher R. Marshall -- Documenting art: Bernard Smith, academic art history and the role of the curator : Jim Berryman -- Bernard Smith as curator: soixante-huitard or Grand Tourist? : Ann Stephen -- 4 / Bernard Smith's Cultural Politics -- Bernard Smith as activist : Max Solling -- The Marxist collector: the art collection of Bernard and Kate Smith : Kate Challis.

Ideological conduits and political coathangers: Bernard Smith on Counihan and Courbet : Sheridan Palmer -- Bernard Smith, 'cultural convergence' and art history : Catherine De Lorenzo -- Bernard Smith's blind spot: Aboriginal and Australian art : Ian McLean -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Index.