McLean, Ian A.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2012	How Aborigines invented contemporary art

Research Areas

1905 - VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2018	Aboriginal Art: is it a white thing? Published In The Conversation
2016	Here’s looking at: Dibirdibi Country – Topway by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori Published In The Conversation
2016	Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation and Unsettled Encounters Published In Museums Australia Magazine
2016	Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-65 Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2016	The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2016	With Secrecy and Despatch Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2015	Contemporary Indigenous Art Published In Gallery: National Gallery of Victoria
2015	Enduring civilisation, entangled histories Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum Published In Broadsheet
2015	The eternal return of irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014) Published In Discipline
2014	Book review: No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession Published In The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2014	Modernism without borders Published In Filozofski Vestnik
2014	Post-western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Art History
2013	Contemporaneous traditions: The World in Indigenous Art/Indigenous Art in the World Published In Humanities Research
2013	Convivial futures: The relational art of Ruark Lewis Published In Art Monthly Australia
2013	Mysterious Correspondences between Charles Baudelaire and Tommy McRae: Reimagining Modernism in Australia as a Contact Zone Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
2013	On the world stage Published In Art Collector
2013	On the world stage: 12 Gordon Bennett Published In Art Collector
2013	Surviving 'The Contemporary': What Indigenous artists want, and how to get it Published In Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet
2013	This belongs to me, the one dollar note: the eternal returns of appropriation Published In Broadsheet
2012	Notes from the field: Appropriation Published In Art Bulletin
2012	Reinventing the savage Published In Third Text
2011	Other Side Art: Trevor Nickolls Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2011	Report on Remembering Forward Forum, Cologne Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2011	Reverse perspective: Bernard Smith’s worldview and the cosmopolitan imagination Published In Journal of Art Historiography
2011	The world art artworld Published In World Art
2010	9 shots 5 stories: Imants Tillers and Indigenous difference part 1 Published In Art Monthly Australia
2010	Pretty pictures, big stories, Tim Johnson: painting ideas Published In Eyeline
2010	The force of Dreaming: Review of 'Once Upon a Time in Papunya' by Vivien Johnson Published In Australian Book Review
2009	Dreamtime Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2009	Judgement day: The art of Gordon Bennett in perspective Published In Australian Aboriginal Art
2009	Provincialism upturned Published In Third Text
2009	The Magicians Hat: Togart 2009 Published In Art Monthly Australia
2008	Landscape histories: Mapping environmental and ecological change through the landscape art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia Published In Environment and History
2008	Nine rounds with Bell's theorem: Aboriginal art - it's a white thing! Published In Broadsheet
2008	The antipodean consciousness: renaming modernism Published In Third Text
2007	Culture warriors: the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial in Canberra Published In Art Monthly Australia
2007	The idea, the Universal and the global: two days in Paris Published In Art Monthly Australia
2007	saltwaterfreshwater Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly

Book

Year	Title
2016	Rattling Spears - A History of Indigenous Australian Art Publisher London
2014	Dreamings: L’Arte Aborigena Australiana incontra de Chirico Publisher Doubleview

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Living Waters Published In Living Waters’ Publisher Doubleview
2016	Bernard Smith's blind spot: Aboriginal and Australian Art Published In The Legacies of Bernard Smith - Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics Publisher Sydney
2016	Beware Crossing: Transculturation in Australian Art Published In Black, White & Restive: Cross-cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle
2015	A Darker Shade of Dark #1-4 - Daniel Boyd Published In Tarnanthi Publisher Adelaide
2015	A journey into the age of post-appropriation: Derek Kreckler's 'appropriated circumstance' Published In Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process Publisher Melbourne
2015	Post-Western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Theorizing Imitation in the visual arts: global contexts Publisher United Kingdom
2015	The origin of art: camouflage, anti-camouflage and de-camouflage in the appropriation art of Imants Tillers Published In Camouflage cultures: beyond the art of disappearance Publisher Australia
2015	The politics of Australian Indigenous contemporary art Published In Robert Campbell JNR History Painter Publisher Sydney
2014	Introduction: Double Desire Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK
2014	Names Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK
2014	The necessity of the new: Between the modern and the contemporary Published In Three Reflections on Contemporary Art History Publisher Melbourne
2014	Theories Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK
2013	Inventing Australian Aboriginal art: from anti-art to fine art Published In World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence Publisher Aldershot, United Kingdom
2013	Let Uz Not Talk Falsely Now Published In Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners Publisher Caulfield
2013	Processus interculturels dans l’art Aborigene Published In Memoires vives: Une histoire de l’art Aborigene Publisher Paris, France
2013	Strategic Aboriginalism: Paul Taylor, postmodernism, neo-Expressionism and Aboriginal art Published In Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984 Publisher Melbourne, Australia
2013	The secret history of performance art Published In Bomb Publisher Ghent-Kortrijk, Belgium
2012	Black and White: A tale of cities and men Published In The Loaded Ground: Michael Jagamara Nelson & Imants Tillers Publisher Canberra
2012	El Puente: en el centro del mundo Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain
2012	Gordon Bennett in a global perspective Published In Outsider/Insider: The Art of Gordon Bennett Publisher Ghent, Belgium
2012	Gordon Bennett: History painter - the ghost returns Published In NewV2: Selected Recent Acquisitions 2009-2011 Publisher St. Lucia, Qld
2012	Modernismus Indigenas Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain
2011	Aboriginal art and the artworld Published In How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art - A documentary history 1980-2006 Publisher Sydney
2011	Aboriginal cosmopolitans: A prehistory of Western Desert Painting Published In Globalisation and Contemporary Art Publisher Oxford
2011	Billy Benn, outsider art and art history Published In Billy Benn, story telling Publisher Alice Springs
2011	How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art Published In How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Art Publisher Brisbane and Sydney
2011	The gift that time gave: Myth and history in the Western Desert painting movement Published In Cambridge Companion to Australian Art History Publisher Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011	The unsettling triumph of Aboriginal contemporary art Published In Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, 2011 Publisher Perth
2010	"Aboriginal art and globalisation" Published In 21st Century: Art in the First Decade Publisher Brisbane
2010	Australian Indigenous Art Published In Art from cave paintings to street art: 40,000 years of creativity Publisher New York
2010	Event horizon: the ends of art Published In Space-Matter-Colour: Brian Blanchflower - Paintings From Four Decades Publisher Crawley, Western Australia
2010	The authenticity of Australian Aboriginal painting in the age of globalisation Published In Remembering Forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960 Publisher London
2010	Wunderkammering Published In Curious Colony: A Twenty First Century Wunderkammer Publisher Newcastle
2009	Bennelong's gambit: The Aboriginal invention of modernism Published In Imagined Australia: Reflections Around the Reciprocal Construction of Identity Between Australia and Europe Publisher Bern
2008	Aboriginal modernism in Australia Published In Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers Publisher Cambridge, USA
2008	Aboriginal modernism? Two histories, one painter Published In Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye Publisher Canberra
2007	Against the grain: towards a natural history of art and taste Published In Visual Animals: Crossovers, Evolution and New Aesthetics (Winner: Best book - Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2008) Publisher Adelaide
2007	The expanded field of the picturesque: contested identities and empire in Sydney Cove 1794 Published In Art and the British Empire Publisher Manchester
2007	Un art flamboyant: Le peinture Aborigene du desert et la modernisme Published In Peinture Aborigene Contemporaine Publisher Nice

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2014	Indigenous modernisms Published In Multiple Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective
2014	On the mimetic faculty: appropriation as de-camouflage Published In Camouflage Cultures Conference
2013	The contemporary: Smith vs. Osborne Published In Inter-discipline: AAANZ Conference
2013	Theorizing indigenous modernism: the Aboriginal memorial Published In Alternative Modernisms Conference
2012	Between Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers Published In AAANZ Annual Conference
2012	How Aborigines invented contemporary art Published In Melbourne Art Fair
2012	Namatjira's absent presence in Australian national discourse Published In Australian Painting in Britain: Cultural Diplomacy, Art and National Identity
2009	Historicity and Aboriginal art: how long will it take for Aboriginal art to become modern? Published In Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence: The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art

Other Publications

Year	Title
2018	Heart of Artness: Episode Art with Heart, a Two-Ways World
2012	Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien
2012	Between Indigenous and European art
2012	Spinifex art: the aesthetic politics of neo-traditionalism
2009	"The Magicians Hat"
2009	Intersections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists
2008	Gestalt for a global world
2008	Naata Nungurrayi: Muni (Rita) Simpson, Spinifex Artists Group, Patrick Tjungurrayi
2008	On drawing: Gosia Wlodarczak's quest
2008	Shadow reflections: Gordon Bennett
2008	The restless cosmopolitan

Editor Of

Book
- Living Waters. Doubleview. 2016
- Double Desire - Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art. Newcastle, UK. 2014
- How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Art. Brisbane and Sydney. 2011

Investigator On

Year	Title
2015	A new theory of Aboriginal art Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2011 - 2013	Mobilising remote Aboriginal art centre records for art history Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	The impact of Aboriginal art on contemporary urban Australian art Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Top Publications

Year	Title
2012	How Aborigines invented contemporary art

Research Areas

1905 - VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2018	Aboriginal Art: is it a white thing? Published In The Conversation
2016	Here’s looking at: Dibirdibi Country – Topway by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori Published In The Conversation
2016	Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation and Unsettled Encounters Published In Museums Australia Magazine
2016	Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-65 Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2016	The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2016	With Secrecy and Despatch Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2015	Contemporary Indigenous Art Published In Gallery: National Gallery of Victoria
2015	Enduring civilisation, entangled histories Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum Published In Broadsheet
2015	The eternal return of irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014) Published In Discipline
2014	Book review: No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession Published In The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2014	Modernism without borders Published In Filozofski Vestnik
2014	Post-western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Art History
2013	Contemporaneous traditions: The World in Indigenous Art/Indigenous Art in the World Published In Humanities Research
2013	Convivial futures: The relational art of Ruark Lewis Published In Art Monthly Australia
2013	Mysterious Correspondences between Charles Baudelaire and Tommy McRae: Reimagining Modernism in Australia as a Contact Zone Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
2013	On the world stage Published In Art Collector
2013	On the world stage: 12 Gordon Bennett Published In Art Collector
2013	Surviving 'The Contemporary': What Indigenous artists want, and how to get it Published In Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet
2013	This belongs to me, the one dollar note: the eternal returns of appropriation Published In Broadsheet
2012	Notes from the field: Appropriation Published In Art Bulletin
2012	Reinventing the savage Published In Third Text
2011	Other Side Art: Trevor Nickolls Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2011	Report on Remembering Forward Forum, Cologne Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2011	Reverse perspective: Bernard Smith’s worldview and the cosmopolitan imagination Published In Journal of Art Historiography
2011	The world art artworld Published In World Art
2010	9 shots 5 stories: Imants Tillers and Indigenous difference part 1 Published In Art Monthly Australia
2010	Pretty pictures, big stories, Tim Johnson: painting ideas Published In Eyeline
2010	The force of Dreaming: Review of 'Once Upon a Time in Papunya' by Vivien Johnson Published In Australian Book Review
2009	Dreamtime Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
2009	Judgement day: The art of Gordon Bennett in perspective Published In Australian Aboriginal Art
2009	Provincialism upturned Published In Third Text
2009	The Magicians Hat: Togart 2009 Published In Art Monthly Australia
2008	Landscape histories: Mapping environmental and ecological change through the landscape art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia Published In Environment and History
2008	Nine rounds with Bell's theorem: Aboriginal art - it's a white thing! Published In Broadsheet
2008	The antipodean consciousness: renaming modernism Published In Third Text
2007	Culture warriors: the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial in Canberra Published In Art Monthly Australia
2007	The idea, the Universal and the global: two days in Paris Published In Art Monthly Australia
2007	saltwaterfreshwater Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly

Book

Year	Title
2016	Rattling Spears - A History of Indigenous Australian Art Publisher London
2014	Dreamings: L’Arte Aborigena Australiana incontra de Chirico Publisher Doubleview

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Living Waters Published In Living Waters’ Publisher Doubleview
2016	Bernard Smith's blind spot: Aboriginal and Australian Art Published In The Legacies of Bernard Smith - Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics Publisher Sydney
2016	Beware Crossing: Transculturation in Australian Art Published In Black, White & Restive: Cross-cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle
2015	A Darker Shade of Dark #1-4 - Daniel Boyd Published In Tarnanthi Publisher Adelaide
2015	A journey into the age of post-appropriation: Derek Kreckler's 'appropriated circumstance' Published In Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process Publisher Melbourne
2015	Post-Western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Theorizing Imitation in the visual arts: global contexts Publisher United Kingdom
2015	The origin of art: camouflage, anti-camouflage and de-camouflage in the appropriation art of Imants Tillers Published In Camouflage cultures: beyond the art of disappearance Publisher Australia
2015	The politics of Australian Indigenous contemporary art Published In Robert Campbell JNR History Painter Publisher Sydney
2014	Introduction: Double Desire Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK
2014	Names Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK
2014	The necessity of the new: Between the modern and the contemporary Published In Three Reflections on Contemporary Art History Publisher Melbourne
2014	Theories Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK
2013	Inventing Australian Aboriginal art: from anti-art to fine art Published In World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence Publisher Aldershot, United Kingdom
2013	Let Uz Not Talk Falsely Now Published In Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners Publisher Caulfield
2013	Processus interculturels dans l’art Aborigene Published In Memoires vives: Une histoire de l’art Aborigene Publisher Paris, France
2013	Strategic Aboriginalism: Paul Taylor, postmodernism, neo-Expressionism and Aboriginal art Published In Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984 Publisher Melbourne, Australia
2013	The secret history of performance art Published In Bomb Publisher Ghent-Kortrijk, Belgium
2012	Black and White: A tale of cities and men Published In The Loaded Ground: Michael Jagamara Nelson & Imants Tillers Publisher Canberra
2012	El Puente: en el centro del mundo Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain
2012	Gordon Bennett in a global perspective Published In Outsider/Insider: The Art of Gordon Bennett Publisher Ghent, Belgium
2012	Gordon Bennett: History painter - the ghost returns Published In NewV2: Selected Recent Acquisitions 2009-2011 Publisher St. Lucia, Qld
2012	Modernismus Indigenas Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain
2011	Aboriginal art and the artworld Published In How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art - A documentary history 1980-2006 Publisher Sydney
2011	Aboriginal cosmopolitans: A prehistory of Western Desert Painting Published In Globalisation and Contemporary Art Publisher Oxford
2011	Billy Benn, outsider art and art history Published In Billy Benn, story telling Publisher Alice Springs
2011	How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art Published In How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Art Publisher Brisbane and Sydney
2011	The gift that time gave: Myth and history in the Western Desert painting movement Published In Cambridge Companion to Australian Art History Publisher Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011	The unsettling triumph of Aboriginal contemporary art Published In Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, 2011 Publisher Perth
2010	"Aboriginal art and globalisation" Published In 21st Century: Art in the First Decade Publisher Brisbane
2010	Australian Indigenous Art Published In Art from cave paintings to street art: 40,000 years of creativity Publisher New York
2010	Event horizon: the ends of art Published In Space-Matter-Colour: Brian Blanchflower - Paintings From Four Decades Publisher Crawley, Western Australia
2010	The authenticity of Australian Aboriginal painting in the age of globalisation Published In Remembering Forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960 Publisher London
2010	Wunderkammering Published In Curious Colony: A Twenty First Century Wunderkammer Publisher Newcastle
2009	Bennelong's gambit: The Aboriginal invention of modernism Published In Imagined Australia: Reflections Around the Reciprocal Construction of Identity Between Australia and Europe Publisher Bern
2008	Aboriginal modernism in Australia Published In Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers Publisher Cambridge, USA
2008	Aboriginal modernism? Two histories, one painter Published In Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye Publisher Canberra
2007	Against the grain: towards a natural history of art and taste Published In Visual Animals: Crossovers, Evolution and New Aesthetics (Winner: Best book - Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2008) Publisher Adelaide
2007	The expanded field of the picturesque: contested identities and empire in Sydney Cove 1794 Published In Art and the British Empire Publisher Manchester
2007	Un art flamboyant: Le peinture Aborigene du desert et la modernisme Published In Peinture Aborigene Contemporaine Publisher Nice

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2014	Indigenous modernisms Published In Multiple Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective
2014	On the mimetic faculty: appropriation as de-camouflage Published In Camouflage Cultures Conference
2013	The contemporary: Smith vs. Osborne Published In Inter-discipline: AAANZ Conference
2013	Theorizing indigenous modernism: the Aboriginal memorial Published In Alternative Modernisms Conference
2012	Between Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers Published In AAANZ Annual Conference
2012	How Aborigines invented contemporary art Published In Melbourne Art Fair
2012	Namatjira's absent presence in Australian national discourse Published In Australian Painting in Britain: Cultural Diplomacy, Art and National Identity
2009	Historicity and Aboriginal art: how long will it take for Aboriginal art to become modern? Published In Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence: The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art

Other Publications

Year	Title
2018	Heart of Artness: Episode Art with Heart, a Two-Ways World
2012	Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien
2012	Between Indigenous and European art
2012	Spinifex art: the aesthetic politics of neo-traditionalism
2009	"The Magicians Hat"
2009	Intersections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists
2008	Gestalt for a global world
2008	Naata Nungurrayi: Muni (Rita) Simpson, Spinifex Artists Group, Patrick Tjungurrayi
2008	On drawing: Gosia Wlodarczak's quest
2008	Shadow reflections: Gordon Bennett
2008	The restless cosmopolitan

Editor Of

Book
- Living Waters. Doubleview. 2016
- Double Desire - Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art. Newcastle, UK. 2014
- How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Art. Brisbane and Sydney. 2011

Investigator On

Year	Title
2015	A new theory of Aboriginal art Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2011 - 2013	Mobilising remote Aboriginal art centre records for art history Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	The impact of Aboriginal art on contemporary urban Australian art Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

McLean, Ian A.

Faculty Member

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Visualisations

Research Areas