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); plus Undesign (Routledge) and Surpassing Modernity: An Ambivalent Quest (Bloomsbury, London), both forthcoming.