Lecture: Gordon Bennett and Aboriginal contemporary art. The radical alternative
Lecture by the leading art historian Prof. Dr. Ian McLean on the contemporary developments in the world of art and the rich oeuvre of the Australian artist Gordon Bennett. Ian McLean will discusses the major shifts in the relationship between Aboriginal art and the contemporary art world in the past 30 years.
Ian McLean is a great authority on the work of Gordon Bennett. He is Research Professor of Australian art at the University of Wollongong, specializing in Aboriginal art. He has published the book How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art.
AAMU, Museum for Contemporary Aboriginal Art, October 16, 2012
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