RIS ID
106156
Abstract
While it is foolhardy to predict artists’ legacies, Rex Butler’s claim – made in an incisive review of Gordon Bennett’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2007 – would seem on safe ground as few artists had a greater impact on the Australian artworld in the early 1990s. However, Butler is an ironic critic who writes against the grain of his own thought. Conferring on Bennett a privileged place in the history of Australian art when the grand lineages of History have lost currency was an intentionally backhanded or ironic compliment.
Publication Details
McLean, I. A. "The eternal return of irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014)." Discipline 4 .2015 (2015): 170-183.