How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art Subject / Asia Pacific Art arid conditions

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This substantial publication documents these

the catalogue is published in association with the exhibition ‘Ian Fairweather: Late Works 1953–74’

Ngarra transforms elements of his traditional culture and the colonial frontier into powerful visual and political statements

observation and imagination

How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art Subject / Asia Pacific Art arid conditionsWhat lies behind the indigenousness of Aboriginal art is a return of the repressed with a vengeance, an enhanced creativity capable of challenging the colonial order. In this anthology, Ian McLean has brilliantly put together a theoretical discourse that examines critically this multilayeredthough sometimes contradictorycomplexity of Aboriginal art.Rasheed Araeen Ian McLean is one of Australias leading art historians and the first to write broadly and