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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Trauma: the aesthetic prescriptions of Gordon Bennett
 's art - Professor Ian McLean\, University of Western Australia
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CONTACT:Sarah-Jane Harknett
DESCRIPTION:Lecture linked with the exhibition Gordon Bennett: The Expiati
 on of Guilt.\nFollowed by drinks in the Museum.\n\nSince the 1990s Gordon 
 Bennett has been Australia's pre-eminent postcolonial painter. His art pri
 marily addresses the trauma of colonialism as it is felt at individual and
  collective levels today\, and also as it is pictured and mapped in Wester
 n discourses. He ranges over Australian and global themes\, including 9/11
  and the Iraq war. The talk will discuss Bennett's art in terms of postcol
 onial trauma\, and at the same time provide an overview of his oeuvre as i
 t developed since he graduated from art school nearly twenty years ago.\n\
 nIAN McLEAN has written extensively on Australian art from a postcolonial 
 perspective. In addition to The Art of Gordon Bennett (Sydney\, 1996) \, c
 o-authored with Gordon Bennett\, he is author of White Aborigines: Identit
 y Politics in Australian Art (Cambridge 1998) and many essays. He is a mem
 ber of the international board of Third Text\, and lectures on art at the 
 University of Western Australia.
LOCATION:Museum of Archaeology &amp\; Anthropology
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