Freedom of expression and the mode of detachment

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Trevor "Turbo" Brown and company
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Christine Morrow

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Entangled looking: The crisis of the animal
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Barbara Creed

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Madison Bycroft's mollusc worlds
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Matt Barlow

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Biennale of Sydney
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From god‑head to bin chook: Ibis in the Australian cultural imagination
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Paul Allatson and Andrea Connor

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Surreal conjunctions in sartorial contexts: A testing ground for human-animal relations
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Ann Finegan

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In the beginning there was the worm: Animal voices beyond the verbal
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Tessa Laird

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NAVA
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Becoming-horse: Jenny Watson, Art Orienté Objet and Berlinde De Bruyckere
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Georgina Downey

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Heading for trouble: Non‑human futures in recent art
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Susan Ballard

Published 01 March 2018

Art theorist, philosopher and Emeritus Professor at Flinders University Donald Brook advocates 'detached contemplation' as the most desirable, appropriate and potentially rewarding response to art.

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