"A Singular Voice" brings together essays by the controversial and
popular Australian art and architecture scholar, Joan Kerr, that
have appeared over the past 30 years. The Joan Kerr story is as
much a history of changing attitudes to Australian art and
architecture as it is a record of the remarkable academic career of
a woman distinguished by her open mind, her infectious enthusiasm
for everthing from colonial architecture to contemporary Aboriginal
art, and her generosity to her peers.
From the ancient remains of a dinosaur in an outback museum
display to the importance of art in our everday lives, Joan Kerr
always had an interesting and different point of view. Whether she
wrote about 19th-century Tasmanian painting, the architecture of
imprisonment, or the forgotten and marginalized of Australian art,
her writing crackles with energy. Her voice was unlike any other--a
singular voice.
Joan Kerr (1938-2004) was an art and architectural historian,
critic, curator of historical and contemporary exhibitions,
lecturer and prolific writer, a witty and erudite public speaker,
and a committed feminist. Her major publications include "The
Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers,
Photographers and Engravers to 1870" and "Heritage: The National
Women's Art Book. "
"A Singular Voice" is part of the four-book series Australian
Studies in Art and Art Theory and is published with the assistance
of the Getty Foundation, the Gordon Darling Foundation, and the
Nelson Meers Foundation.
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