School of Communication and Arts

Honorary Professor Rex Butler

Honorary Professor
School of Communication and Arts

Publications

Books (8)
Book Chapters (74)
Journal Articles (90)
Conference Papers (4)
Preprint (1)
Generic Documents (12)
Creative Works (5)
Newspaper Articles (4)

Books

Butler, Rex (2016). Deleuze and Guattari's "What is Philosophy"?. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Butler, Rex, Fried, Michael and Periz, Ingrid (2013). Marioni/MacPherson. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, Rex (2010). Borges' short stories: A reader's guide. London, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Continuum.
Butler, Rex (2010). Colin McCahon in Australia. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington.
Butler, Rex (2006). Slavoj Zizek zur Einfuhrung. Hamburg, Germany: Junius Verlag GmbH.
Butler, Rex W. (2005). Slavoj Žižek : Live theory. London, U.K.: Continuum.
Butler, R. W. (2002). A Secret History of Australian Art. Sydney: Craftsman House.
Butler, R. W. (1999). Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real. London: Sage Publications.

Book Chapters

Butler, Rex (2015). Unerasure. Erasure: The Spectre of Cultural Memory. (pp. 145-162) edited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos. Faringdon, OX, United Kingdom: Libri.
Butler, Rex (2014). Hetero-architecture: the style of 'Whatever' in art, architecture and fashion. The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture. (pp. 183-195) edited by Nadir Lahiji. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Butler, Rex (2014). Boris Groy's post-capitalist scenario. States of crisis and post-capitalist scenarios. (pp. 241-255) edited by Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi and Slavoj Žižek. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate.
Butler, Rex (2014). Subject. The Žižek Dictionary. (pp. 238-241) edited by Rex Butler. Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing.
Butler, Rex (2014). When one becomes two. Lindy Lee: The Dark of Absolute Freedom. (pp. 45-59) edited by Michele Helmrich. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, Rex (2014). Less than nothing to say: an introduction to Slavoj Žižek. The Žižek Dictionary. (pp. ix-xx) Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing.
Butler, Rex (2013). Forward to the past: on the paradoxes of time travel. Making worlds: art and science fiction. (pp. 62-83) edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus.
Butler, Rex (2013). From MacPherson to Marioni and back again. Marioni, MacPherson. (pp. 7-21) St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, Rex and Rothnie, Susan (2013). Paul Taylor's '70s. Impresario: Paul Taylor, the Melbourne years, 1981-1984. (pp. 186-197) edited by Helen Hughes and Nicholas Croggon. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus and Monash University Museum of Art.
Butler, Rex and McLean, Ian (2013). Let uz not talk falsely now. Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners. (pp. 39-41) edited by Max Delany and Francis E. Parker. Caulfield East, VIC, Australia: Monash University Museum of Art.
Butler, Rex (2013). Two snapshots of the readymade today. Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century. (pp. 95-100) edited by Max Delany. Caulfield East, VIC, Australia: MUMA: Monash University Museum of Art.
Butler, Rex (2012). On writing a history of ‘UnAustralian’ art. Taking stock: the humanities in Australian life since 1968. (pp. 173-181) edited by Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane. Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.
Butler, Rex (2012). The "curious incident" of Aboriginal Art. The loaded ground: Michael Jagamara Nelson and Imants Tillers. (pp. 45-54) Canberra, Australia: ANU Drill Hall Gallery.
Butler, Rex (2011). Introduction. Art after deconstruction: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. (pp. 1-5) edited by Rex Butler. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Editions 3.
Butler, Rex (2011). Beauty, the sublime and time. Art after deconstruction: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. (pp. 45-60) edited by Rex Butler. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Editions 3.
Butler, Rex (2011). Las contradicciones de Zizek. Slavoj Žižek: Filosofía y crítica de la ideología. (pp. 135-158) edited by Francisco Castro Merrifield and Pablo Lazo Briones. Puebla, México: Universidad Iberoamericana.
Butler, Rex (2010). The world is not enough. After the event: New perspectives on art history. (pp. 57-67) edited by Charles Merewether and John Potts. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press.
Butler, Rex (2010). Please don't touch. 21st century: Art in the first decade. (pp. 262-269) edited by Miranda Wallace. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.
Butler, Rex and Simmons, Laurence (2010). 'The sound of painting': Colin McCahon. Art, word and image: 2,000 years of visual/textual interaction. (pp. 329-345) edited by John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas and Michael Corris. London, U.K.: Reaktion Books.
Butler, Rex (2010). Foucault + dead power. The Baudrillard dictionary. (pp. 78-80) edited by Richard G. Smith. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Butler, Rex (2010). Impossible exchange. The Baudrillard dictionary. (pp. 105-108) edited by Richard G. Smith. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Butler, Rex (2010). Terrorism. The Baudrillard dictionary. (pp. 213-216) edited by Richard G. Smith. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Butler, Rex (2010). Nihilism. The Baudrillard dictionary. (pp. 139-141) edited by Richard G. Smith. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Butler, Rex (2010). No future. AES+F: the revolution starts now!. (pp. xx-xx) edited by Michele Helmrich. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, Rex (2009). Infinity and one: On six stories by Borges. A universal Argentine: Jorge Luis Borges, english literature and other inquisitions. (pp. 63-85) edited by Estela Valverde. Sydney, Australia: Southern Highlands Press.
Butler, Rex (2009). Allegories of feeling. Alun Leach-Jones: Painting and sculpture. (pp. 18-23) edited by Jennifer Blunden. Chippendale, NSW, Australia: Marnling Press.
Butler, Rex (2009). Peripheral burnout: Paul Foss in correspondence with Rex Butler. The &-Files: Art & Text 1981-2002. (pp. 64-71) edited by Paul Foss. Brisbane, Australia and Florida, United States: Institute of Modern Art and Whale & Star.
Butler, Rex (2009). Damien Hirst's death drive - Contemporary art after irony. Damien Hirst. (pp. 107-115) edited by Christian Gether and Marie Laurberg. Denmark: ARKEN Museum of Modern Art.
Butler, Rex (2009). Baudrillard's taste. Jean Baudrillard: Fatal theories. (pp. 49-60) edited by David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, William Merrin and Richard G. Smith. Abingdon UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203927052
Butler, Rex (2009). Stanley Cavell. Film, theory and philosophy: The key thinkers. (pp. 145-153) edited by Felicity Colman. Durham, U.K.: Acumen Publishing.
Butler, Rex, Clarke, David B., Doel, Marcus A., Genosko, Gary, Kellner, Douglas, Poster, Mark, Smith, Richard G. and Wernick, Andrew (2008). Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard's 'On disappearance'. Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories. (pp. 30-48) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203927052
Butler, Rex W. (2008). Locality Fails. Australian Latvian Artists: A Collection of Works by Latvian Artists in Australia. (pp. 10-11) edited by Greste, Dagnija. Sydney: Australian Latvian Artists Association (ALMA).
Butler, Rex and Simmons, Laurence (2008). Practical religion: on the after-life of Colin McCahon. Landfall 215: Waiting for godzone. (pp. 119-128) edited by Paul Morris and Mike Grimshaw. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Butler, Rex (2008). George (Hairbrush) Tjungurrayi: Passages. New: Selected Recent Acquisitions 2007 - 2008. (pp. 46-47) edited by Michelle Helmrich. St. Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, Rex (2008). Shaun Gladwell: Internal horizon. New: Selected Recent Acquisitions 2007 - 2008. (pp. 80-81) edited by Helmrich, Michelle. St. Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, R. W. (2007). Representation. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. (pp. 3879-3882) edited by Ritzer, G.. Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Publishing.
Butler, R. W. (2007). Allegories of animation: Schindler's List, E.T. and The Lion King. The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation. (pp. 314-336) edited by Cholodenko, A.. Sydney: Power Publications.
Butler, Rex (2007). William Robinson: Depicting invisible distance. Brought to light II: Contemporary Australian art 1966-2006 from the Queensland Art Gallery collection. (pp. 258-267) edited by Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington. South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery Publishing.
Butler, Rex (2007). Two Warhols. Andy Warhol. (pp. 60-69) edited by L. Seear. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2007). A short history of unAustralian art. Visual Animals: Crossovers, Evolution and New Aesthetics. (pp. 107-122) edited by Ian North. Parkside, SA Australia: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
Butler, R.W. (2007). Three signs of the contemporary. Cultural Faultlines. 2005 Contemporary Art Centre of SA Lecture Series. (pp. 89-99) edited by Cruickshank, A. and Choy, L.W.. Parkside, Australia: The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
Butler, Rex and Stephens, Scott (2007). Capital's second death: On opera and economics. Did somebody say ideology? On Slavoj Zizek and consequences. (pp. 8-20) edited by Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Butler, Rex and Broadfoot, Keith (2006). Baudrillard, Perspective and the Void of Architecture. Mass. Identity. Architecture. Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard. (pp. 181-187) edited by Francesco Proto. England: Wiley-Academy.
Butler, R W and Stephens, S (2006). Editor's Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's 'third way'. Slavoj Zizek: The Universal Exception. (pp. 1-11) edited by R. Butler and S. Stephens. London: Continuum.
Butler, R W and Stephens, S (2006). Glossary. Slavoj Zizek: The Universal Exception. (pp. 327-353) edited by R. Butler and S. Stephens. London: Continuum.
Butler, R. W. (2006). Ian Fairweather in the 21st century. Ian Fairweather: An Artist of the 21st Century. (pp. 24-26) edited by S. Alderton. New South Wales: Lismore Regional Gallery.
Butler, R. W. (2006). View from Australia. 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth. (pp. 52-55) edited by C. Green. Melbourne: The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Butler, R. W. (2006). Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley. 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. (pp. 22-23) edited by L. Michael. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia.
Butler, R. W. (2005). "Nothing to Say": An introduction to Slavoj Zizek. From Z to A: Zizek at the Antipodes. (pp. 43-60) edited by Simmons, L., Worth, H. and Molloy, M.. Wellington: Dunmore Publishing.
Butler, R. W. and Stephens, S. (2005). Glossary. Slavoj Zizek: Interrogating the Real. (pp. 356-375) edited by Butler, R. and Stephens, S.. London: Continuum.
Butler, R. W. (2005). Interview with Bernard Smith. Radical Revisionism: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art. (pp. 73-80) edited by Butler, R.. Brisbane: IMA Publishing.
Butler, R. W. and Stephens, S. (2005). Editors' Introduction. Slavoj Zizek: Interrogating the Real. (pp. 1-7) edited by R. Butler and S. Stephens. London: Continuum.
Butler, R. W. (2005). Interview with Djon Mundine. Radical Revisionism: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art. (pp. 88-93) edited by Butler, R.. Brisbane: IMA Publishing.
Butler, Rex (2005). Introduction. Radical Revisionism: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art. (pp. 7-36) edited by Rex Butler. Brisbane, Australia: IMA Publishing.
Butler, R. W. (2005). The Curse of the Contemporary. Interesting Times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art. (pp. 28-31) edited by Macgregor, E.. New South Wales: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Against pluralism. 2004. (pp. 67-69) edited by C. Green. Melbourne: Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Baudrillad's light writing or photographic thought. Cahiers de L'Herne balance correct L'Henrie Baudrillard. (pp. 215-223) edited by Coulter, G.. Paris: Editions de l'Herne.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Aboriginal art out of context. Spirit & Vision: Aboriginal Art. (pp. 74-77) edited by K. Essl. Germany: Edition Sammlung Essl.
Butler, R. W. (2003). Jean Baudrillard. Key Contemporary Social Theorists. (pp. 32-37) edited by Elliott, A. and Ray. L.. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Butler, R. W. (2003). Jean Baudrillard: Photographing Ethics. Baudrillard West of the Dateline. (pp. 245-258) edited by V Grace, H Worth and L Simmons. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press.
Butler, Rex W. (2003). Emily Kame Kngwarreye and the undeconstructible space of justice. Art of the 20th Century: A Reader. (pp. 304-319) edited by Gaiger, Jason and Wood, Paul. New Haven, USA: Yale University Press.
Butler, R. W. (2002). Hello. Critical Interventions. (pp. 6-11) edited by Rex Butler and Jacqueline Millner. Sydney: Artspace.
Butler, R. W. and Broadfoot, K. (2002). A Fold in Time: Ann MacDonald and the Origin of Photography. Value Added Goods. (pp. 34-46) edited by Koop, Stuart. Melbourne: Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Butler, R. W. and Thomas, M. K. (2002). Tracey Moffatt's Beauty. Tracey Moffatt. (pp. 39-41) edited by Paula Savage. Wellington: City Gallery.
Butler, R. W. (2001). Augustus Earle's Blind Spot. Postcolonial + Art. (pp. 33-42) edited by Green, Charles. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Artspace Australia.
Butler, R. W. (2001). Equivalence: From Kosuth's Chair to Freud's Couch. Tip of the Iceberg: Selected Works 1985-2001. (pp. 59-66) St Lucia: University Art Museum.
Butler, R. W. (2001). The Strange Case of Michael Stevenson. Republics of Ideas :: republicanism culture visual arts. (pp. 65-79) edited by Buckley, Brad and Conomos, John. Sydney: Pluto Press.
Butler, Rex W. (2001). Before the Law: Reading the Yuendumu Doors with Eric Michaels. Religion and Media. (pp. 514-527) edited by de Vries, Hent and Weber, Samuel. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Butler, R. W. (2000). The interval in Carter. Imaginary Materials. (pp. 41-47) edited by Macarthur, John. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: IMA Publishing.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Non-genital thought. 100 years of cruelty: Essays on Artaud. (pp. 3-57) edited by Scheer, Edward. Sydney: Power Publications.
Butler, R. W. (2000). 'The man who knows too much': On Michael Fried's 'Impressionism'. Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried. (pp. 155-176) edited by Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts and Toni Ross. Sydney: Power Publications.
Butler, R. W. (2000). History and trauma. Critical Readings. (pp. 5-12) edited by Best, Sue, Green, Charles and Rees, Simon. Sydney: Artspace.
Butler, R. W. (2000). The touch between the optical and the material. Joseph Marioni: Four Paintings. (pp. 23-29) St Lucia, QLD Australia: University of Queensland Art Museum.
Butler, R. W. (1999). Speaking of Geometric Painting. Reflections on Geometric Painting. (pp. 3-12) edited by Nicholas Tsoutas. Sydney: Artspace.

Journal Articles

Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2015). War and peace: 200 years of Australian-German artistic relations. EMAJ Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, 1 (8), 1-24.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2015). I am, you are, we are australian. Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, 44 (1), 72-74.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2015). Alice or Taos: two sides of the same coin. Art Monthly Australia, 282, 22-25.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2015). Trans-Pacific: abstract painting in Australia, New Zealand and America 1930–1960. Discipline, 4, 37-48.
Butler, Rex (2014). Time after time. History of European Ideas, 40 (1), 57-69. doi: 10.1080/01916599.2013.784438
Butler, Rex (2014). What was Abstract Expressionism? Abstract Expressionism after Aboriginal Art. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 14 (1), 76-91. doi: 10.1080/14434318.2014.936529
Butler, Rex (2014). William Rothman's Vertigo. Film-Philosophy, 18 (1), 35-49. doi: 10.3366/film.2014.0004
Butler, Rex (2014). Less than Nothing is more than something (part I). International Journal of Zizek Studies, 8 (1), 1-10.
Butler, Rex (2014). Modernism: more popular than populism. Broadsheet, 43 (4), 19-28.
Butler, Rex and Holbrook, Peter (2014). Preface. History of European Ideas, 40 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/01916599.2013.784018
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A.D.S. (2013). Surrealism and Australia: towards a world history of Surrealism. Journal of Art Historiography (9), 1-15.
Butler, Rex (2013). Bogus art. Dissect Journal, 1 (1), 6-11.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2013). Ten rooms: the real spaces of Asian-Australian artistic interaction. Broadsheet, 42 (3), 210-213.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A.D.S. (2013). Bernard Smith's Real Choice: Surrealism or Abstraction 1930-1950. Eyeline (78/79), 64-71.
Butler, Rex (2013). John Nixon: a communist artist. Discipline, 3, 33-40.
Butler, Rex (2013). The QCA School. Art Monthly Australia (257), 40-43.
Butler, Rex (2013). Bernard Smith and the Myth of Isolation - A Symposium. Eyeline (78/79), 50-51.
Butler, Rex (2012). All or anything at all. Broadsheet, 41 (4), 276-279.
Butler, Rex (2012). Parallel collisions: in the shadow of all our relations and traumatised art. Broadsheet, 41 (2), 130-133.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2012). Il n'y a pas de solution au provincialism. May, 8, 89-100.
Butler, Rex (2012). Infinity and One: On Jorge Luis Borges'S 'El Inmortal'. Modern Language Review, 107 (1), 182-197. doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.107.1.0182
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2012). Against provincialism: Australian-American connections 1900-2000. Journal of Australian Studies, 36 (3), 291-307. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2012.703221
Butler, Rex (2012). ABBAS KIAROSTAMI the shock of the real. Angelaki-Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 17 (4), 61-76. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2012.747330
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2011). Cities within cities: Australian and New Zealand art in the 20th century. Journal of Art Historiography (4), 1-15.
Butler, Rex (2011). The infinity machine: Mike Parr’s performance art, 1971–2005. Theatre Research International, 36 (2), 184-185. doi: 10.1017/S0307883311000101
Butler, Rex (2011). Parallax view: Robert McPherson. Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet, 40 (1), 46-48.
Butler, Rex (2011). Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian. The Symptom (12).
Butler, Rex (2011). Masculine feminine: Two shows at the IMA. Eyeline (73), 45-50.
Butler, Rex (2011). Jean Baudrillard's duality. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 8 (1), 1-4.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, Ads (2010). Douglas Cooper: Cubism and Australian art history. Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, 29 (2), 131-133.
Butler, Rex (2010). Re-reading "Kafka and His Precursors". Variaciones Borges, 29, 93-106.
Butler, Rex and Simmons, Laurence (2010). Victory over death: For Nick Waterlow. Art and Australia, 47 (4), 676-681.
Butler, Rex (2010). Everything and nothing: On Jorge Luis Borges's "Kafka and His Precursors". Romance Quarterly, 57 (2), 129-141. doi: 10.1080/08831150903504737
Butler, Rex and Smith, Terry (2010). Rex Butler and Terry Smith: In conversation. 'What is Contemporary Art?'. Column, 5, 134-144.
Butler, Rex (2010). Taryn Simon: The conspiracy of word and image. Eyeline, 72 (3), 56-59.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2010). French, floral and female: a history of unAustralian art 1900-1930 (part 1). EMAJ: Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, 1 (5), 1-30.
Butler, Rex (2010). Thought is grievance: On Zizek's Parallax. International Journal of Zizek Studies, 4 (1), 1-27.
Butler, Rex (2009). Candide in Brisvegas. Broadsheet, 38 (1).
Butler, Rex (2009). postart or back to the future?. Broadsheet, 38 (4), 250-251.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, Andrew (2009). Stay, go, or come: A history of Australian art, 1920-40. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 9 (1/2), 119-143.
Butler, Rex and Enwezor, Okwui (2009). Curating the world: Okwui Enwezor talks to Rex Butler. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 9 (1/2), 15-21.
Butler, Rex and Leonard, Robert (2009). Editorial. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 9 (1/2), 9-12.
Butler, Rex (2009). Apology (not) accepted. Broadsheet, 38 (2), 134-135.
Butler, Rex (2009). Candide in Brisvegas. Broadsheet, 38 (1), 31-33.
Butler, Rex and Donaldson, A. D. S. (2009). Outside in: Against a history of reception. Art and Australia, 46 (3 Autumn), 432-437.
Butler, Rex W. (2008). The world is not enough: Art and globalization. artUS, 21, 29-37.
Butler, Rex (2008). Andy Warhol and the "religious" dimension of contemporary art. Reading Room (2), 28-45.
Butler, Rex (2008). Bill Henson: The letter returns. Broadsheet, 37 (4), 277-279.
Butler, Rex (2007). The letter always arrives: Slavoj Zizek on Jacques Derrida. Journal for Lacanian Studies, 5 (1), 53-74.
Butler, Rex (2007). GoMA, the APT and the Contemporary. Eyeline, 63 (Winter), 32-41.
Butler, Rex (2007). Between heaven and earth: The art of Rosemary Laing. Art and Australia, 44 (4), 560-569.
Butler, Rex (2006). On looking at looking: The art and politics of Ian Burn. Art Monthly, 188, x.
Butler, R W (2006). Review: Rustic cubism: Anne Dangar and the art colony at Moly-Sabata by Bruce Adams. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 7 (1), 216-220.
Butler, R W and Stephens, S (2006). The sound of silence: Wagner with Stalin. Lacanian Ink, 28, 68-81.
Butler, Rex and Stephens, Scott (2006). Play fuckin' loud: Zizek versus the left. The Symptom, 7, 1-7.
Butler, Rex (2006). My 21st Century Modernism. Broadsheet, 35 (2), 108-110.
Butler, Rex (2006). On radical revisionism. Artlink, 26 (1), 46-50.
Butler, Rex (2006). The disappearing coincidence. Photofile, 77 (Autumn), 24-27.
Butler, Rex (2005). My, sir does know what he wants. Art Monthly, 177, 19-19.
Butler, Rex (2005). Baudrillard's light writing or photographic thought. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 2 (1), 1-21.
Butler, Rex (2005). Three signs of the contemporary. Broadsheet, 34 (2), 106-107.
Butler, Rex (2004). In this virtual realm. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 1 (2), 1-6.
Butler, Rex (2004). The infinity of the remix. Broadsheet, 33 (4), 19-21.
Butler, Rex (2004). Aboriginal art out of context. Eyeline, 55 (Spring), 26-29.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Brisbane: Queensland College of Art. Contemporary, 62, 74-75.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Brisbane. Contemporary, 62, 18-19.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Towards A Principle of Maximalism: Jean Baudrillard‘s Cool Memories. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 1 (1), 1-20.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Rod Moss' royal portraits. Australian Art Collector, 28, 98-101.
Butler, R. W. (2004). Recapitulations In A Twilight Mode: Jean Baudrillard‘s The Perfect Crime and Paroxysm. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 1 (1), 1-13.
Butler, Rex (2003). A Short Introduction to UnAustralian Art. Broadsheet, 32 (4), 17-1-17-3.
Butler, R. W. and Thomas, M.K. (2003). "I Am Not Sorry": Richard Bell out of context. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 4 (1), 29-41.
Butler, R. W. (2002). Rosella's Choice. Australian Art Collector, July/Sept., 66-69.
Butler, R. (2002). 'Bright Shadows': Art, Aboriginality and aura. South Atlantic Quarterly, 101 (3), 501-518. doi: 10.1215/00382876-101-3-501
Butler, R. W. (2002). A return to Pollock. Art Monthly Australia (156), 46-48.
Butler, R. W. (2001). Tracey Mofatt: From Something Singular...To Something More. Eyeline (45), 23-31.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Two books by Bernard Smith. OJEBLIKKET, 10 (3), 12-23.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Echo & Narcissus: Gordon Bennett and his critics. Postwest, 16, 46-51.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Many Armanious: The gift of sight. Art & Text, 68, 66-71.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Recent Baudrillard. AUMLA: Journal of Australasian Universities Language & Literature Association, 93, 83-97.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Lisa Adams: Paintings. Lisa Adams: Paintings, 2-5.
Butler, R. W. (2000). In the twilight of drawing. Year 2000 artistcare student drawing exhibition, 4-6.
Butler, Rex (1999). Sovereign Stain: On Rene Magritte's 'Hegel's Holiday'. Globe E Journal of Contemporary Art (3).
Butler, R. W. (1999). Scott Redford. Art/Text, 66 (Aug-Oct 99), 88-89.
Butler, R. W. (1999). Multu Cerkez: The year 2025 will not take place. Art/Text, 64 (Feb-Mar 99), 58-63.
Butler, R. W. (1999). Dear Robert. Globe (10), 1-10.
Butler, R. W. (1999). Before the law:Reading the Yuenduma doors with Eric Michaels. Eyeline, Summer 99 (41), 28-35.
Butler, R. W. (1999). What is the secret of secret painting?: On looking at seeing and reading. Australian Journal of Art, XIV (2), 27-40. doi: 10.1080/03146464.1999.11432862
Butler, R. W. (1999). The politics of deconstruction. The Semiotic Review of Books, 10 (1), 1-6.
Butler, R. W. (1999). Australian art history and revisionism. Beyond the future: The third Asia-Pacific triennial of contemporary art (1), 173-174.
Butler, Rex (1997). The impossible painter. Australian Art Collector, 1 (2), 42-45.

Conference Papers

Butler, Rex (2014). War and peace: Australia and Germany in art. Lecture in Art History, Woollahra, NSW, Australia, 24 July, 2014.
Butler, Rex (2009). On writing a history of ‘UnAustralian’ art. The 40th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, Australia, 19-20 November 2009. Canberra, Australia: The Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Butler, R. W. and Thomas, M. K. (2000). The trends in recent post-modern art writing. The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, 9 September 1999. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery.
Butler, R. W. (2000). Australian art history and revisionism. The Role of Art at the End of the Millenium, Victoria University, Wellington, 2-5 December, 1999. Wellington: Department of Art History, Victoria University.

Preprint

Butler, Rex (2009). Damien Hirst's Death Drive: On the post-ironic art of Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.

Generic Documents

Butler, Rex (2014). Another Look at the Greatest Film: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. ABC Arts online.
Butler, Rex (2014). Tyza Stewart's Drag Dreams. ABC Arts online.
Butler, Rex (2013). An Art of Diminishing Returns. ABC Arts online.
Butler, Rex W. (2011). Rosemary Laing's 'Leak'. Tolarno galleries.
Butler, Rex (2010). Where to put Aboriginal art. Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts.
Butler, Rex (2010). Judgement day. James C. Sourris.
Butler, Rex W. (2009). Imants Tillers -- The Last Australian or the First Post-Australian Artist?. Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia.
Butler, Rex (2008). Review of Bernard Smith's 'The Formalesque'.
Butler, Rex W. (2008). In a Post-Critical Moment : Catalogue Essay.
Butler, Rex (2008). The Principles of the Collection. Queensland Art Gallery Society.
Rex Butler (2008). Margaret Preston and the History Wars.
Rex Butler (2007). Framing Peter Neilson. Australian Galleries.

Creative Works

Butler, Rex (2014). Museums at war: review. Ultimo, NSW, Australia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Butler, Rex (2013). Marioni/MacPherson. UQ Art Museum: The University of Queensland.
Butler, Rex (2013). Under the fig leaf. Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia: Heiser Gallery.
Butler, Rex (2008). The last collector. Sydney, Australia: Nationwide News.
Butler, Rex W. (2006). Rex Butler reviews Things I Didn't Know, by Robert Hughes. Ultimo, NSW, Australia: ABC National Radio.

Newspaper Articles

Butler, Rex (2007, 08 31). The Revolutionary Colouring History The Australian 18-18.
Butler, Rex (2007, 06 30). Poles apart The Australian 18-18.
Butler, Rex W. (2003, 06 07). Bogus art. A policy to fund public art The Courier Mail M01-M01.
Butler, Rex W. (2003, 04 05). Beyond the revolution The Courier Mail M01-M01.