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 Volume 10July Pages 1 - 3
2016	Here’s looking at: Dibirdibi Country – Topway by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori Published In The Conversation Volume 12 July Pages 1 - 3
2016	Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation and Unsettled Encounters Published In Museums Australia Magazine Volume 24 Pages 10 - 17
2016	Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-65 Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume October Pages 1 - 22 ISSN 0727-1239
2016	The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 36 Pages 100 - 103 ISSN 0727-1239
2016	With Secrecy and Despatch Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume June Pages 1 - 5 ISSN 0727-1239
2015	Contemporary Indigenous Art Published In Gallery: National Gallery of Victoria Pages 22 - 33
2015	Enduring civilisation, entangled histories Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum Published In Broadsheet Volume 44 Pages 6 - 9 ISSN 0007-2044
2015	The eternal return of irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014) Published In Discipline Volume 4 Pages 170 - 183
2014	Book review: No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession Published In The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 25 Pages 121 - 122 ISSN 1035-8811 Altmetric
2014	Modernism without borders Published In Filozofski Vestnik Volume 35 Pages 121 - 139 ISSN 0353-4510
2014	Post-western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Art History Volume 37 Pages 629 - 647 ISSN 0141-6790 Altmetric
2013	Contemporaneous traditions: The World in Indigenous Art/Indigenous Art in the World Published In Humanities Research Volume 19 Pages 47 - 60 ISSN 1440-0669
2013	Convivial futures: The relational art of Ruark Lewis Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 264 Pages 17 - 19 ISSN 1033-4025
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 Volume 13 Pages 71 - 90 ISSN 0314-6464
2013	On the world stage Published In Art Collector Pages 102 - 103
2013	On the world stage: 12 Gordon Bennett Published In Art Collector Pages 104 - 105
2013	Surviving 'The Contemporary': What Indigenous artists want, and how to get it Published In Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet Volume 42 Pages 167 - 173 ISSN 0819-677X
2013	This belongs to me, the one dollar note: the eternal returns of appropriation Published In Broadsheet Volume 42 Pages 18 - 22 ISSN 0007-2044
2012	Notes from the field: Appropriation Published In Art Bulletin Volume 94 Pages 179 - 181 ISSN 0004-3079
2012	Reinventing the savage Published In Third Text Volume 26 Pages 599 - 613 ISSN 0952-8822 Altmetric
2011	Other Side Art: Trevor Nickolls Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 31 Pages 54 - 57 ISSN 0727-1239
2011	Report on Remembering Forward Forum, Cologne Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 31 ISSN 0727-1239
2011	Reverse perspective: Bernard Smith’s worldview and the cosmopolitan imagination Published In Journal of Art Historiography Volume 4 Pages 1 - 18 ISSN 2042-4752
2011	The world art artworld Published In World Art Volume 1 Pages 161 - 169 ISSN 2150-0908 Altmetric
2010	9 shots 5 stories: Imants Tillers and Indigenous difference part 1 Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 228 Pages 12 - 16 ISSN 1033-4025
2010	Pretty pictures, big stories, Tim Johnson: painting ideas Published In Eyeline Volume 71 Pages 44 - 53 ISSN 0818-8734
2010	The force of Dreaming: Review of 'Once Upon a Time in Papunya' by Vivien Johnson Published In Australian Book Review Volume 326 Pages 41 - 42
2009	Dreamtime Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 29 Pages 16 - 19 ISSN 0727-1239
2009	Judgement day: The art of Gordon Bennett in perspective Published In Australian Aboriginal Art Volume 2 Pages 131 - 133
2009	Provincialism upturned Published In Third Text Volume 23 Pages 625 - 632 ISSN 0952-8822 Altmetric
2009	The Magicians Hat: Togart 2009 Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 223 Pages 5 - 6 ISSN 1033-4025
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 Volume 14 Pages 187 - 204 ISSN 0967-3407 Altmetric
2008	Nine rounds with Bell's theorem: Aboriginal art - it's a white thing! Published In Broadsheet Volume 37 Pages 280 - 282 ISSN 0007-2044
2008	The antipodean consciousness: renaming modernism Published In Third Text Volume 22 Pages 508 - 511 ISSN 0952-8822 Altmetric
2007	Culture warriors: the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial in Canberra Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 206 Pages 5 - 6 ISSN 1033-4025
2007	The idea, the Universal and the global: two days in Paris Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 201 Pages 21 - 23 ISSN 1033-4025
2007	saltwaterfreshwater Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 27 Page p. 90 ISSN 0727-1239

Book

Year	Title
2016	Rattling Spears - A History of Indigenous Australian Art Publisher London: Reaktion Books ISBN 9781780235905 Pages 301
2014	Dreamings: L’Arte Aborigena Australiana incontra de Chirico Publisher Doubleview: The Bridge-Australia Pty Ltd

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Living Waters Published In Living Waters’ Publisher Doubleview: The Bridge Australia Pages 68 - 93
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: Power Publications & AGNSW Pages 338 - 351 ISBN 9780994306432
2016	Beware Crossing: Transculturation in Australian Art Published In Black, White & Restive: Cross-cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle: Newcastle Art Gallery Page p. 1
2015	A Darker Shade of Dark #1-4 - Daniel Boyd Published In Tarnanthi Publisher Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia Pages 131 - 131
2015	A journey into the age of post-appropriation: Derek Kreckler's 'appropriated circumstance' Published In Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process Publisher Melbourne: Perimeter Editions Pages 72 - 81 ISBN 9780994388308
2015	Post-Western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Theorizing Imitation in the visual arts: global contexts Publisher United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell Pages 30 - 49
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: Sydney University Press Pages 77 - 86
2015	The politics of Australian Indigenous contemporary art Published In Robert Campbell JNR History Painter Publisher Sydney: Artbank Pages 36 - 46
2014	Introduction: Double Desire Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 1 - 12 ISBN 9781443867436
2014	Names Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 15 - 30 ISBN 9781443867436
2014	The necessity of the new: Between the modern and the contemporary Published In Three Reflections on Contemporary Art History Publisher Melbourne: Discipline Pages 15 - 52
2014	Theories Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 31 - 42 ISBN 9781443867436
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: Ashgate Pages 83 - 109 ISBN 9781409455882
2013	Let Uz Not Talk Falsely Now Published In Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners Publisher Caulfield: Monash University Museum of Art Pages 39 - 41
2013	Processus interculturels dans l’art Aborigene Published In Memoires vives: Une histoire de l’art Aborigene Publisher Paris, France: Editions de la Martiniere Pages 182 - 189 (English p250-253
2013	Strategic Aboriginalism: Paul Taylor, postmodernism, neo-Expressionism and Aboriginal art Published In Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984 Publisher Melbourne, Australia: Surpllus/MUMA Pages 34 - 56
2013	The secret history of performance art Published In Bomb Publisher Ghent-Kortrijk, Belgium: Snoeck Publishers Pages 89 - 93 ISBN 9789461610959
2012	Black and White: A tale of cities and men Published In The Loaded Ground: Michael Jagamara Nelson & Imants Tillers Publisher Canberra: The Drill Hall Pages 29 - 40
2012	El Puente: en el centro del mundo Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern Pages 11 - 16
2012	Gordon Bennett in a global perspective Published In Outsider/Insider: The Art of Gordon Bennett Publisher Ghent, Belgium: Snoeck Publishers Pages 27 - 41
2012	Gordon Bennett: History painter - the ghost returns Published In NewV2: Selected Recent Acquisitions 2009-2011 Publisher St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Art Museum Pages 61 - 64
2012	Modernismus Indigenas Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern Pages 17 - 27
2011	Aboriginal art and the artworld Published In How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art - A documentary history 1980-2006 Publisher Sydney: IMA and Power Publications Pages 17 - 76 ISBN 9780909952372
2011	Aboriginal cosmopolitans: A prehistory of Western Desert Painting Published In Globalisation and Contemporary Art Publisher Oxford: Blackwell Pages 147 - 160
2011	Billy Benn, outsider art and art history Published In Billy Benn, story telling Publisher Alice Springs: IAD Press Pages 43 - 68
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: IMA and Power Publications Pages 333 - 345 ISBN 9780909952372
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: Cambridge University Press Pages 180 - 192
2011	The unsettling triumph of Aboriginal contemporary art Published In Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, 2011 Publisher Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia Pages 8 - 11
2010	"Aboriginal art and globalisation" Published In 21st Century: Art in the First Decade Publisher Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery Pages 212 - 221
2010	Australian Indigenous Art Published In Art from cave paintings to street art: 40,000 years of creativity Publisher New York: Universe Pages 540 - 543
2010	Event horizon: the ends of art Published In Space-Matter-Colour: Brian Blanchflower - Paintings From Four Decades Publisher Crawley, Western Australia: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia Pages 10 - 15
2010	The authenticity of Australian Aboriginal painting in the age of globalisation Published In Remembering Forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960 Publisher London: Paul Holberton Publishing Pages 162 - 170
2010	Wunderkammering Published In Curious Colony: A Twenty First Century Wunderkammer Publisher Newcastle: Newcastle Region Art Gallery Pages 70 - 75
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: Peter Lang Pages 187 - 200
2008	Aboriginal modernism in Australia Published In Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers Publisher Cambridge, USA: INIVA & MIT Press Pages 72 - 95
2008	Aboriginal modernism? Two histories, one painter Published In Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye Publisher Canberra: National Museum of Australia Pages 23 - 29
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: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Pages 51 - 58
2007	The expanded field of the picturesque: contested identities and empire in Sydney Cove 1794 Published In Art and the British Empire Publisher Manchester: Manchester University Press Pages 23 - 37
2007	Un art flamboyant: Le peinture Aborigene du desert et la modernisme Published In Peinture Aborigene Contemporaine Publisher Nice: Museum of Modern Art Pages 11 - 18

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 Pages 95 - 95
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 Page p. 60
2012	How Aborigines invented contemporary art Published In Melbourne Art Fair Page p. 60
2012	Namatjira's absent presence in Australian national discourse Published In Australian Painting in Britain: Cultural Diplomacy, Art and National Identity Pages 4 - 5
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 Pages 922 - 925

Curatorial Work

Year	Title
2012	Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Venue Institut Valencia d’Art Modern Date of Exhibition 31 January to 16 April

Exhibition Catalogue Essay

Year	Title
2012	Between Indigenous and European art Published In Roads Cross: Contemporary Directions in Australian Art Pages 26 - 31 Date of Exhibition 29 June - 26 August Place of Advertisement online Publisher Flinders University Art Museum
2012	Spinifex art: the aesthetic politics of neo-traditionalism Published In Tupun Nguranguru – People of the Sandhill Country ISBN 9780980373363 Date of Exhibition 31 July - 11 August Publisher Vivien Anderson Gallery
2009	"The Magicians Hat" Published In Togart Contemporary Art Award (NT) 2009 Pages 8 - 9 Publisher Toga Group
2009	Intersections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists Published In Kura Alala: Eyes Open Pages 8 - 11 Date of Exhibition 17 October - 6 December Publisher Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2008	Gestalt for a global world Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Karin Lettau: Translating from the Dead to the Living" Date of Exhibition 24 April - 25 May Publisher Design Centre Tasmania
2008	Naata Nungurrayi: Muni (Rita) Simpson, Spinifex Artists Group, Patrick Tjungurrayi Published In Catalogue essays for the exhibition "Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards" Pages 30 - 43 Date of Exhibition 1 Nov '08 - 11 Jan '09 Publisher Art Gallery of Western Australia
2008	On drawing: Gosia Wlodarczak's quest Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Cinderella II - The Dreamer" Pages 13 - 16 Date of Exhibition 12 May - 10 June Publisher SASA Gallery
2008	Shadow reflections: Gordon Bennett Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Shadow Reflections" Pages 3 - 7 Date of Exhibition 7-23 May Publisher Milani Gallery
2008	The restless cosmopolitan Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Gordon Bennett" Publisher Greenaway Gallery

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
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
	A new theory of Aboriginal 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 Volume 10July Pages 1 - 3
2016	Here’s looking at: Dibirdibi Country – Topway by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori Published In The Conversation Volume 12 July Pages 1 - 3
2016	Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation and Unsettled Encounters Published In Museums Australia Magazine Volume 24 Pages 10 - 17
2016	Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-65 Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume October Pages 1 - 22 ISSN 0727-1239
2016	The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 36 Pages 100 - 103 ISSN 0727-1239
2016	With Secrecy and Despatch Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume June Pages 1 - 5 ISSN 0727-1239
2015	Contemporary Indigenous Art Published In Gallery: National Gallery of Victoria Pages 22 - 33
2015	Enduring civilisation, entangled histories Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum Published In Broadsheet Volume 44 Pages 6 - 9 ISSN 0007-2044
2015	The eternal return of irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014) Published In Discipline Volume 4 Pages 170 - 183
2014	Book review: No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession Published In The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 25 Pages 121 - 122 ISSN 1035-8811 Altmetric
2014	Modernism without borders Published In Filozofski Vestnik Volume 35 Pages 121 - 139 ISSN 0353-4510
2014	Post-western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Art History Volume 37 Pages 629 - 647 ISSN 0141-6790 Altmetric
2013	Contemporaneous traditions: The World in Indigenous Art/Indigenous Art in the World Published In Humanities Research Volume 19 Pages 47 - 60 ISSN 1440-0669
2013	Convivial futures: The relational art of Ruark Lewis Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 264 Pages 17 - 19 ISSN 1033-4025
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 Volume 13 Pages 71 - 90 ISSN 0314-6464
2013	On the world stage Published In Art Collector Pages 102 - 103
2013	On the world stage: 12 Gordon Bennett Published In Art Collector Pages 104 - 105
2013	Surviving 'The Contemporary': What Indigenous artists want, and how to get it Published In Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet Volume 42 Pages 167 - 173 ISSN 0819-677X
2013	This belongs to me, the one dollar note: the eternal returns of appropriation Published In Broadsheet Volume 42 Pages 18 - 22 ISSN 0007-2044
2012	Notes from the field: Appropriation Published In Art Bulletin Volume 94 Pages 179 - 181 ISSN 0004-3079
2012	Reinventing the savage Published In Third Text Volume 26 Pages 599 - 613 ISSN 0952-8822 Altmetric
2011	Other Side Art: Trevor Nickolls Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 31 Pages 54 - 57 ISSN 0727-1239
2011	Report on Remembering Forward Forum, Cologne Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 31 ISSN 0727-1239
2011	Reverse perspective: Bernard Smith’s worldview and the cosmopolitan imagination Published In Journal of Art Historiography Volume 4 Pages 1 - 18 ISSN 2042-4752
2011	The world art artworld Published In World Art Volume 1 Pages 161 - 169 ISSN 2150-0908 Altmetric
2010	9 shots 5 stories: Imants Tillers and Indigenous difference part 1 Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 228 Pages 12 - 16 ISSN 1033-4025
2010	Pretty pictures, big stories, Tim Johnson: painting ideas Published In Eyeline Volume 71 Pages 44 - 53 ISSN 0818-8734
2010	The force of Dreaming: Review of 'Once Upon a Time in Papunya' by Vivien Johnson Published In Australian Book Review Volume 326 Pages 41 - 42
2009	Dreamtime Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 29 Pages 16 - 19 ISSN 0727-1239
2009	Judgement day: The art of Gordon Bennett in perspective Published In Australian Aboriginal Art Volume 2 Pages 131 - 133
2009	Provincialism upturned Published In Third Text Volume 23 Pages 625 - 632 ISSN 0952-8822 Altmetric
2009	The Magicians Hat: Togart 2009 Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 223 Pages 5 - 6 ISSN 1033-4025
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 Volume 14 Pages 187 - 204 ISSN 0967-3407 Altmetric
2008	Nine rounds with Bell's theorem: Aboriginal art - it's a white thing! Published In Broadsheet Volume 37 Pages 280 - 282 ISSN 0007-2044
2008	The antipodean consciousness: renaming modernism Published In Third Text Volume 22 Pages 508 - 511 ISSN 0952-8822 Altmetric
2007	Culture warriors: the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial in Canberra Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 206 Pages 5 - 6 ISSN 1033-4025
2007	The idea, the Universal and the global: two days in Paris Published In Art Monthly Australia Volume 201 Pages 21 - 23 ISSN 1033-4025
2007	saltwaterfreshwater Published In Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly Volume 27 Page p. 90 ISSN 0727-1239

Book

Year	Title
2016	Rattling Spears - A History of Indigenous Australian Art Publisher London: Reaktion Books ISBN 9781780235905 Pages 301
2014	Dreamings: L’Arte Aborigena Australiana incontra de Chirico Publisher Doubleview: The Bridge-Australia Pty Ltd

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Living Waters Published In Living Waters’ Publisher Doubleview: The Bridge Australia Pages 68 - 93
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: Power Publications & AGNSW Pages 338 - 351 ISBN 9780994306432
2016	Beware Crossing: Transculturation in Australian Art Published In Black, White & Restive: Cross-cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle: Newcastle Art Gallery Page p. 1
2015	A Darker Shade of Dark #1-4 - Daniel Boyd Published In Tarnanthi Publisher Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia Pages 131 - 131
2015	A journey into the age of post-appropriation: Derek Kreckler's 'appropriated circumstance' Published In Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process Publisher Melbourne: Perimeter Editions Pages 72 - 81 ISBN 9780994388308
2015	Post-Western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia Published In Theorizing Imitation in the visual arts: global contexts Publisher United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell Pages 30 - 49
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: Sydney University Press Pages 77 - 86
2015	The politics of Australian Indigenous contemporary art Published In Robert Campbell JNR History Painter Publisher Sydney: Artbank Pages 36 - 46
2014	Introduction: Double Desire Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 1 - 12 ISBN 9781443867436
2014	Names Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 15 - 30 ISBN 9781443867436
2014	The necessity of the new: Between the modern and the contemporary Published In Three Reflections on Contemporary Art History Publisher Melbourne: Discipline Pages 15 - 52
2014	Theories Published In Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Publisher Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 31 - 42 ISBN 9781443867436
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: Ashgate Pages 83 - 109 ISBN 9781409455882
2013	Let Uz Not Talk Falsely Now Published In Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners Publisher Caulfield: Monash University Museum of Art Pages 39 - 41
2013	Processus interculturels dans l’art Aborigene Published In Memoires vives: Une histoire de l’art Aborigene Publisher Paris, France: Editions de la Martiniere Pages 182 - 189 (English p250-253
2013	Strategic Aboriginalism: Paul Taylor, postmodernism, neo-Expressionism and Aboriginal art Published In Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984 Publisher Melbourne, Australia: Surpllus/MUMA Pages 34 - 56
2013	The secret history of performance art Published In Bomb Publisher Ghent-Kortrijk, Belgium: Snoeck Publishers Pages 89 - 93 ISBN 9789461610959
2012	Black and White: A tale of cities and men Published In The Loaded Ground: Michael Jagamara Nelson & Imants Tillers Publisher Canberra: The Drill Hall Pages 29 - 40
2012	El Puente: en el centro del mundo Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern Pages 11 - 16
2012	Gordon Bennett in a global perspective Published In Outsider/Insider: The Art of Gordon Bennett Publisher Ghent, Belgium: Snoeck Publishers Pages 27 - 41
2012	Gordon Bennett: History painter - the ghost returns Published In NewV2: Selected Recent Acquisitions 2009-2011 Publisher St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Art Museum Pages 61 - 64
2012	Modernismus Indigenas Published In Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Publisher Spain: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern Pages 17 - 27
2011	Aboriginal art and the artworld Published In How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art - A documentary history 1980-2006 Publisher Sydney: IMA and Power Publications Pages 17 - 76 ISBN 9780909952372
2011	Aboriginal cosmopolitans: A prehistory of Western Desert Painting Published In Globalisation and Contemporary Art Publisher Oxford: Blackwell Pages 147 - 160
2011	Billy Benn, outsider art and art history Published In Billy Benn, story telling Publisher Alice Springs: IAD Press Pages 43 - 68
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: IMA and Power Publications Pages 333 - 345 ISBN 9780909952372
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: Cambridge University Press Pages 180 - 192
2011	The unsettling triumph of Aboriginal contemporary art Published In Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, 2011 Publisher Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia Pages 8 - 11
2010	"Aboriginal art and globalisation" Published In 21st Century: Art in the First Decade Publisher Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery Pages 212 - 221
2010	Australian Indigenous Art Published In Art from cave paintings to street art: 40,000 years of creativity Publisher New York: Universe Pages 540 - 543
2010	Event horizon: the ends of art Published In Space-Matter-Colour: Brian Blanchflower - Paintings From Four Decades Publisher Crawley, Western Australia: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia Pages 10 - 15
2010	The authenticity of Australian Aboriginal painting in the age of globalisation Published In Remembering Forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960 Publisher London: Paul Holberton Publishing Pages 162 - 170
2010	Wunderkammering Published In Curious Colony: A Twenty First Century Wunderkammer Publisher Newcastle: Newcastle Region Art Gallery Pages 70 - 75
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: Peter Lang Pages 187 - 200
2008	Aboriginal modernism in Australia Published In Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers Publisher Cambridge, USA: INIVA & MIT Press Pages 72 - 95
2008	Aboriginal modernism? Two histories, one painter Published In Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye Publisher Canberra: National Museum of Australia Pages 23 - 29
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: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Pages 51 - 58
2007	The expanded field of the picturesque: contested identities and empire in Sydney Cove 1794 Published In Art and the British Empire Publisher Manchester: Manchester University Press Pages 23 - 37
2007	Un art flamboyant: Le peinture Aborigene du desert et la modernisme Published In Peinture Aborigene Contemporaine Publisher Nice: Museum of Modern Art Pages 11 - 18

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 Pages 95 - 95
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 Page p. 60
2012	How Aborigines invented contemporary art Published In Melbourne Art Fair Page p. 60
2012	Namatjira's absent presence in Australian national discourse Published In Australian Painting in Britain: Cultural Diplomacy, Art and National Identity Pages 4 - 5
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 Pages 922 - 925

Curatorial Work

Year	Title
2012	Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien Venue Institut Valencia d’Art Modern Date of Exhibition 31 January to 16 April

Exhibition Catalogue Essay

Year	Title
2012	Between Indigenous and European art Published In Roads Cross: Contemporary Directions in Australian Art Pages 26 - 31 Date of Exhibition 29 June - 26 August Place of Advertisement online Publisher Flinders University Art Museum
2012	Spinifex art: the aesthetic politics of neo-traditionalism Published In Tupun Nguranguru – People of the Sandhill Country ISBN 9780980373363 Date of Exhibition 31 July - 11 August Publisher Vivien Anderson Gallery
2009	"The Magicians Hat" Published In Togart Contemporary Art Award (NT) 2009 Pages 8 - 9 Publisher Toga Group
2009	Intersections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists Published In Kura Alala: Eyes Open Pages 8 - 11 Date of Exhibition 17 October - 6 December Publisher Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2008	Gestalt for a global world Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Karin Lettau: Translating from the Dead to the Living" Date of Exhibition 24 April - 25 May Publisher Design Centre Tasmania
2008	Naata Nungurrayi: Muni (Rita) Simpson, Spinifex Artists Group, Patrick Tjungurrayi Published In Catalogue essays for the exhibition "Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards" Pages 30 - 43 Date of Exhibition 1 Nov '08 - 11 Jan '09 Publisher Art Gallery of Western Australia
2008	On drawing: Gosia Wlodarczak's quest Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Cinderella II - The Dreamer" Pages 13 - 16 Date of Exhibition 12 May - 10 June Publisher SASA Gallery
2008	Shadow reflections: Gordon Bennett Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Shadow Reflections" Pages 3 - 7 Date of Exhibition 7-23 May Publisher Milani Gallery
2008	The restless cosmopolitan Published In Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Gordon Bennett" Publisher Greenaway Gallery

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
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
	A new theory of Aboriginal 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

Curatorial Work

Exhibition Catalogue Essay

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Curatorial Work

Exhibition Catalogue Essay

Editor Of

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