NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: HOW ABORIGINES INVENTED THE IDEA OF CONTEMPORARY ART (WRITINGS ON ABORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY ART) (2011/2014) • Edited and introduced by Ian McLean. • “How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art is the first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring ninety-six authors—including art critics and historians, curators, art centre co-ordinators and managers, artists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and novelists—it conveys a diversity of thinking and approach. Together with editor Ian McLean’s important introductory essay and epilogue, the anthology argues for a re-evaluation of Aboriginal art’s critical intervention into contemporary art since its seduction of the art world a quarter-century ago.” • Ian McLean is a well-known commentator on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian art and the intersection of Indigenous and settler cultures. He is the author of The Art of Gordon Bennett and White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art. He is a member of the Advisory Council of Third Text, and professor of Australian art history at the University of Wollongong. • Available via our website and in the bookshop this week. • #worldfoodbooks #ianmclean #PupiyaLouisaNapaljarriLawson #RoverThomas #UtaUtaTjangala #cliffordpossumtjapaltjarri #destinydeacon #galarrwuyyunupingu #linonus #richardbell #rexbutler #nikospapastergiadis #jenniferlbiddle #djambawamarawili #ianburn #juandavila #judywatson #gordonbennett @ima_brisbane (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)