Link to 5 essays:
The restless cosmopolitan by Ian McLean, 2008. Who is John Citizen? by Ian McLean, 2006. Gordon Bennett's abstract art: the aesthetics of commitment and indifference by Ian McLean, 2004. Gordon Bennett's Notes to Basquiat. (911) by Greg Dimitriadis & Cameron McCarthy, 2002911 (with Apologies to Walter Benjamin), by Ian McLean, 2002.
Links to artist's profile, images in exhibitions and catalogues. 2003 Figure/Ground (Zero) has an essay Camouflage by Ian Mclean. 2001 Notes to Basquiat: Modern art has an essay Conspiracy theory: Pollock, Basquiat, Bennett by Ian Mclean.
Catalog of an exhibition held Oct. 9-16, 1994 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., and June 21-Aug. 6, 1995 at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
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55 minute video about the art patronage of the Medici in the renaissance and about the art practices of the time. Focusing on the artists Botticelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Botticelli 6.48 - 9.32 mins, 17.40-20.46 mins and more at 32.22 mins onwards Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
4 minute video program. Ben Quilty, winner of the Archibald Prize 2011, talks about painting the portrait of his friend and highly esteemed painter Margaret Olley.
3 1/2 minute video program "Jackson Pollock on his process". This video of Jackson Pollock at work is accompanied by the artist's commentary about this artistic process.
1 1/2 minute video "Jackson Pollock at work". This video shows the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock in the process of action painting, which involved pouring and splashing paint (rather than applying it with a brush) to achieve a spontaneous effect.