Talk:Bernard William Smith
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— This reference: http://www.sustainability.murdoch.edu.au/publications/amhope/smith.html (a transcript of a talk Smith gave at a Scince and Society conference (date?)) - suggests that 'Place, Taste and Tradition' was first published in 1945.
The text of the talk concerns his proposal that the term 'formalesque' should be used to replace the now anachronistic use of the term 'modern' to describe the artistic period beginning in the 1890s and which dominated untilt the 1950's.