European Vision and the South Pacific Third EditionFrom Australia's greatest art historian and pioneer of post colonialism, Bernard Smith, comes a new edition of this classic study of an imagined southern world. Bernard Smith (1916 2011) was arguably Australia's greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the