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How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art Subject / Asia Pacific Art which tells us whenWhat lies behind the indigenousness of Aboriginal art is a return of the repressed with a vengeance, an enhanced creativity capable of challenging the colonial order. In this anthology, Ian McLean has brilliantly put together a theoretical discourse that examines critically this multilayeredthough sometimes contradictorycomplexity of Aboriginal art.Rasheed Araeen Ian McLean is one of Australias leading art historians and the first to write broadly and