The art history and contemporaneity of Terry Smith
Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology
Published online on March 16, 2026
Abstract
Thesis Eleven, Volume 193, Issue 1, Page 44-55, April 2026.
This essay surveys 50 years of essays and books by art historian Terry Smith, arguing that his encounters with conceptual art and Australian Aboriginal art inform a concept of contemporaneity that has emerged in his writing in the twenty-first century as ...
This essay surveys 50 years of essays and books by art historian Terry Smith, arguing that his encounters with conceptual art and Australian Aboriginal art inform a concept of contemporaneity that has emerged in his writing in the twenty-first century as ...