Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Modernism is generally considered an arcane art movement associated with a small coterie of white bohemian middle-class renegades based in Paris and a few other canonical centres of modernity. The last place critics have gone looking for either modernity or modernism is on the colonial frontier and especially the Aboriginal frontier. This attitude is beginning to change, and reflects the postcolonial recognition of non-European modernities.
RIS ID
68377
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Publication Details
McLean, I. A. "Bennelong''s gambit: The Aboriginal invention of modernism." Imagined Australia: Reflections Around the Reciprocal Construction of Identity Between Australia and Europe. Ed.R. Summo-O''Connell. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009, 187-200.