A-bomb, 29

Above the Town, 166

Absolute Truth, xvi, 160–161, 163, 246

abstract painting, 59

activist, 37, 48, 88

Adoration of the Magi, 127, 167–168

aesthetics, 8, 43, 56, 67, 91, 205

Afghanistan, 70, 76–77, 143, 152

Africa, 147

African National Congress, 190

South Africa, 151–152, 178, 190

Age, The. See under newspaper

agricultural production, 4

Agricultural Reclamation Corps, 4

Ai Qing, 31, 123

aircraft, 3, 108

Al Qaeda, 70, 76

All Men Are Brothers, 134

Allan, Ted, 54, 63, 120–121

Allende, Salvador, 147, 153

Alley, Rewi, 107

Allied Powers, 128

America. See United States of America

Amin, Idi, 147, 151

Amur River, xiv, 4

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, The, 145–146

Andreyeva, Maria, 164

anti-bourgeois-liberalism campaign, 42

anti-Japanese, 35, 38, 58, 100, 104, 173–174, 183, 188

See also Japan

anti-Manchu revolutionary cause, 43

anti-spiritual-pollution campaign, 42

Antonov-Ovseyenko, Vladimir, 119

Aquino, Maria Corazon, 146, 152

Arafat, Yasser, 69, 148, 153

Archibald Prize, xvii

army general, 21–22, 26, 28–32, 34, 37–38, 40, 86, 88, 94, 101, 110, 118, 145, 147, 153, 159, 172–173, 175–179, 183, 186, 189, 192, 197, 201

arrest, xv, 3, 11, 14, 32, 40, 101, 104, 110–111, 113, 120, 137, 157–158, 164, 172, 187–188, 194

art bureaucrats, 60

art critic, 10, 14, 150

Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), xvi–xvii, 11, 129

Art Research, 61

artworks, 56, 61, 167, 205

forbidden subject matter, 22

Renaissance, 45, 128

rework by government, 9–10

signing by artists, 5

Asia, 13, 147, 173, 179, 181, 190–192

Asian civilization, 168

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 180

August First Declaration, 100

Aung San Suu Kyi, 146–147, 151

Australia, xvi–xviii, 11, 24, 41, 46