Books
- Place, Taste and Tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788 Sydney: Ure Smith, 1945 (reprinted Melbourne: OUP, 1979)
- A Catalogue of Australian Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952 Sydney: The Gallery, 1953
- European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850: a study in the history of art and ideas Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1960 (reprinted 1985)
- Australian Painting Today: The John Murtagh Macrossan memorial lecture, 1961 St. Lucia, Qld: Queensland University Press, 1962
- Australian Painting, 1788-2000 Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1962 (updated 1971; updated 1991 with Terry Smith; & update 2001 with Christopher Heathcote)
- The Architectural Character of Glebe, Sydney (with Kate Smith), Sydney: University Co-operative Bookshop Press, 1973 (reprinted 1985)
- Concerning Contemporary Art: the Power lectures, 1968-1973 (ed.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975
- Documents on Art and Taste in Australia: the colonial period, 1770-1914 (ed.) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975
- The Antipodean Manifesto: essays in art and history Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975
- Art as Information: reflections on the art from Captain Cook's voyages Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1979
- The Spectre of Truganini Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1980
- The Boy Adeodatus: the portrait of a lucky young bastard Ringwood, Vic.: Allen Lane, 1984 (reprinted 1985, 1994)
- The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages (with Rüdiger Joppien) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, three volumes, 1985–1987
- The Death of the Artist as Hero: essays in history and culture Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
- The Art of the First Fleet and Other Early Australian Drawings (eds Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
- Baudin in Australian Waters: the artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands 1800-1804 (eds J. Bonnemains, E. Forsyth and B. Smith) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
- Terra Australis: the furthest shore (eds W. Eisler and B. Smith) Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, 1988
- The Critic as Advocate: selected essays 1941-1988 Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, 1989
- Imagining the Pacific in the Wake of the Cook Voyages Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992
- Noel Counihan: artist and revolutionary Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
- Poems 1938-1993 Carlton, Vic.: Meanjin, 1996
- Modernism's History: a study in twentieth-century art and ideas New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998
- A Pavane for Another Time Sydney: Macmillan, 2002
- The Formalesque Melbourne: Macmillian, 2007 (forthcoming)
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