Andrew McNamara teaches art history at QUT. His publications include: An Apprehensive Aesthetic (2009); Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia (with Ann Stephen and Philip Goad) (2008); Sweat—the subtropical imaginary (2011); Undesign (Routledge, 2018) and just published:Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalent in Art, Politics and Society (Bloomsbury, London, 2019).