Andrew McNamara is an art historian and writer, and Emeritus Professor at QUT. His work focuses largely on the modernist legacy for contemporary art and culture. He treats this legacy as contradictory or paradoxical rather than a purely negative or positive phenomenon. Key projects include: Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 (2006), Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia (2008), Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond (2019), all with Ann Stephen and Philip Goad; Undesign (2018); An Apprehensive Aesthetic? The Legacy of Modernist Culture (2009); Surpassing Modernity (2018/19); and the exhibition Bauhaus Now (2020-2021).