BOOK | RADICAL REVISIONISM

RADICAL REVISIONISM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS ON AUSTRALIAN ART
Edited by Rex Butler

The IMA is pleased to announce the publication of our new anthology of Australian art criticism, Radical Revisionism, a sequel to What is Appropriation? Radical Revisionism gathers important recent writings on Australian art. These writings are ‘revisionist’ insofar as they seek to bring a series of present-day perspectives to the study of art of the past: feminism, post-colonialism, the overturning of the legal doctrine of terra nullius. Radical Revisionism asks: What is the proper role for art history? Is it merely to chronicle the truth of the past, or is it to actively intervene in the events it records? These questions obviously bear a relationship to the ‘history wars’ that raged throughout the 1990s in Australia. The anthology concludes by asking whether there can in fact be a history of ‘Australian’ art in which white and indigenous artists come together. It proposes that the 21st century will be characterised by a certain ‘unAustralian’ history of Australian art.

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