Rex Butler

Research output

Research output per year 2009 2021

• 38 Article
• 30 Chapter (Book)
• 14 Short Review
• 8 Catalogue
• 11 More
  • 4 Book
  • 1 Edited Book
  • 1 Foreword / Postscript
  • 1 Comment / Debate
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Review Article
  • 1 Curation
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2021

  Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Philosophy and Popular Culture

  Butler, R., 2021, London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. 218 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
• 2020

  Duchamp and Australia in opposition

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2020, Artlink, 40, 1, p. 60-67 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research

• Framing the Voice / Voicing the Frame: On Brook Andrew's Vox: Beyond Tasmania (2013)

  Butler, R., 2020, In : Index Journal. 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• John Nixon's 'Laziness'

  Butler, R., 2020, The Art of Laziness: Contemporary Art and Post-Work Politics. Attwood, D. & Russell, F. (eds.). Southbank, Vic, Australia: A+A Publishing, p. 167-179 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research

• On the Possibility of Another Australian Art History

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2020, The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions. Bennett, T., Stevenson, D., Myers, F. & Winikoff, T. (eds.). New York, USA: Routledge, p. 44-55 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Rosalind Krauss: between modernism and post-medium

  Butler, R., 2020, In : Journal of Art Historiography. 23, 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• Stanley Cavell's Doubling

  Butler, R., 2020, Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections. LaRocca, D. (ed.). New York, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 213-228 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half Century after The World Viewed

  Butler, R., 2020, In : Screening the Past. 45

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• “In my empty existence I have seen it all”: On Colin McCahon’s last paintings

  Butler, R. & Simmons, L., 2020, In : Journal of New Zealand Studies. 31, p. 114-127 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2019

  Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy: A Reader's Guide

  Butler, R., 2019, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 237 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Other

• How to do things with words: Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley's Word Works

  Butler, R., 2019, Eyeline, 91, p. 50-55 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research

• 'In the Beginning': Janet Burchill's Word Works

  Butler, R., 2019, Bulleen, Vic, Australia: Heide Museum of Modern Art. 4 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Catalogue › Research

• On Vanishing Land (2013): The Eerie, W. G. Sebald, and English Hauntology

  Butler, R., 2019, The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture. Bubenik, A. (ed.). 1st ed. New York NY USA: Routledge, p. 94-106 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Resurrecting spirit: Mikala Dwyer in ‘Bauhaus Now!’

  Butler, R., 2019, Art Monthly Australasia, 317, p. 54-58 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research

• The UnAustralian Artworld

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2019, Discipline, 5, p. 117-128 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research
• 2018

  A Chain of Ponds: On German and Australian Artistic Interactions

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2018, German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers: Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands. Nickl, B., Herrschner, I. & Gozdziak, E. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 193-208 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith

  Butler, R. (ed.) & Palmer, S. (ed.), 2018, Clayton, Vic, Australia: Monash University Publishing. 401 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review

• Double Displacement: Rex Butler on Queensland Art 1992 - 2016

  Butler, R., 2018, Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Institute of Modern Art. 215 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Other

• Henry James: To Love is to Double

  Butler, R., 2018, In : Continental Thought & Theory. 2, 3, p. 91-107 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• Imaginary, Symbolic, Real: A Short History of Performance

  Butler, R., 2018, What is Performance Art?: Australian Perspectives. Geczy, A. & Kelly, M. (eds.). Sydney, NSW, Australia: Power Publications, p. 15-32 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Introduction

  Butler, R. & Palmer, S., 2018, Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith. Butler, R. & Palmer, S. (eds.). Clayton, Vic, Australia: Monash University Publishing, p. ix-xxiv 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword / Postscript › Research › peer-review

• Leonard Bell. Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980. Auckland University Press, 2017

  Butler, R., 2018, In : Postcolonial Text. 13, 4, 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Marcel and Felix: An Australian Rendezvous

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2018, Apostrophe Duchamp. Colless, E. (ed.). Southbank, Vic, Australia: A+A Publishing, p. 154-167 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research

• Michael Fried’s Intentionality

  Butler, R., 2018, Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality. Abbott, M. (ed.). New York, USA: Routledge, p. 138-150 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Mutlu Cerkez: the year 2025 will not take place

  Butler, R., 2018, Caulfield East, Vic, Australia: Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). 7 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Catalogue › Other

• Mysterious Ways

  Butler, R., 2018, Artforum International, 56, 5, p. 47 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research

• Performance as Populism/Populism as Performance

  Butler, R., 2018, What is Performance Art?: Australian Perspectives. Geczy, A. & Kelly, M. (eds.). Sydney, NSW, Australia: Power Publications, p. 151-166 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• The Field Revisited

  Butler, R., 2018, Artlink 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research
• 2017

  Andy Warhol Ai Weiwei: National Gallery of Victoria 11 December 2015 to 24 April 2016

  Butler, R., 2017, In : Australian Historical Studies. 48, 2, p. 283-286 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Research › peer-review

• Art and Objecthood: Fried against Fried

  Butler, R., 2017, In : Nonsite. 22, 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• A woman's smile

  Butler, R., 2017, Lars von Trier's Women. Butler, R. & Denny, D. (eds.). New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 47 - 65 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Baudrillard's List

  Butler, R., Cholodenko, A. & Zurbrugg, N., 2017, Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture. Smith, R. G. & Clarke, D. B. (eds.). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, p. 163-171 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review

• Ben Quilty: the fog of war

  Butler, R., 3 Jul 2017, In : Intellectual History Review. 27, 3, p. 433-451 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Brave New World: Australia 1930s | Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art

  Butler, R., 2017, Memo Review.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research

  Open Access

• CityCat Dreaming

  Butler, R., 2017, Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press and Australian Fine Arts/David Pestorius. 2 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Catalogue › Research › peer-review

• Gareth Sansom and the "Great Outdoors"

  Butler, R., 2017, Eyeline, 86 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research

• Gareth Withdraws, Gareth Sansom: Transformer

  Butler, R., 2017, Memo Review.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research

  Open Access

• Gavin Hipkins: Counting to Infinity

  Butler, R., 2017, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press. 3 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Catalogue › Other › peer-review

• Gordon Walters: Les Années Décisives, 1946-1953

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2017, Auckland and Dunedin, New Zealand: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. 14 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Catalogue › Research › peer-review

• I can see Russia from here

  Butler, R., 2017, Memo Review.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research

  Open Access

• Introduction: The feminine act and the question of woman in Lars von Trier's films

  Butler, R. & Denny, D., 2017, Lars von Trier's Women. Butler, R. & Denny, D. (eds.). New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1-13 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Len Lye as a 'Sydney' Artist

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2017, The Long Dream of Waking: New Perspectives on Len Lye. Brobbel, P., Curnow, W. & Horrocks, R. (eds.). New Zealand: Canterbury University Press, p. 85-102 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Paints like a dream: Louise Hearman

  Butler, R., 2017, Memo Review.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research

  Open Access

• Suzanne Archer: Moving Forwards, Looking Back: A Survey 1969–2016

  Butler, R., 2017, Memo Review.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Short Review › Research

  Open Access

• The Field at 50

  Butler, R. & Donaldson, A. D. S., 2017, Broadsheet (Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia), 46, 3, p. 17-21 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research

• The three Lacanian registers of musical performance

  Butler, R., 2017, In : International Journal of Zizek Studies. 11, 3, p. 118-145 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• You only get it twice: Foreword(s)

  Butler, R. & Bertola, M. F., 2017, In : International Journal of Zizek Studies. 11, 3, p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Research › peer-review
• 2016

  Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?'

  Butler, R., 2016, London UK: Bloomsbury Academic. 214 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

• Desire chasing its own tale

  Butler, R., 2016, Melbourne, Vic, Australia: VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery. 2 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Catalogue › Research

• Fairweather after Fairweather

  Butler, R., 2016, Art and Australia, 53, 1, p. 56-63 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research