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 Biography

Dr Rex Butler’s research interests include contemporary Australian art and art criticism; Post-war American art; and Postmodernism.

His current research includes editing a collection entitled 'Radical Revisionism' on Australian post-colonial art and two volumes of Slavoj Zizek's selected writings.

He is the author of:

• An Uncertain Smile (1996)
• What is Appropriation? (1996)
• Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999)
* A Secret History of Australian Art (2002)
• Slavo Zizek: Live Theory (2004)

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