Asv Flyer Public Email

A Singular Voice

Essays on Australian art and architecture by Joan Kerr edited by Candice Bruce, Dinah Dysart and Jo Holder A Singular Voice is a collection of essays by the controversial and popular Australian art and architecture scholar, Joan Kerr, that have appeared over the past 30 years in a wide variety of scholarly publications, many of which enjoyed only a small distribution. The book brings Kerr’s essays together for the first time, making it an important resource. Joan Kerr’s interests were wide-ranging and the essays encompass colonial architecture, contemporary Aboriginal art, the ancient remains of a dinosaur in an outback museum display, the forgotten and marginalised of Australian art, and the importance of art in our everyday lives. A Singular Voice is a history of changing attitudes to Australian art and architecture as well as a record of the remarkable career of a woman distinguished by her open mind, her infectious enthusiasm and her generosity to her peers. A Singular Voice is the first book in the four-book series Australian Studies in Art and Art Theory and was published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation, the Gordon Darling Foundation and the Nelson Meers Foundation. Joan Kerr (1938-2004) was an art and architectural historian, critic, exhibition curator, lecturer and prolific writer, a witty and erudite public speaker and a committed feminist. Her meticulous research resulted in the major publications: The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 and Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book. Joan’s many awards include a posthumous AM at the 2004 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Audience • students and academics in art history and theory, creative arts, architecture and architectural history, and Australian history. • artists, architects, curators and historians. • general readers interested in Australian art or architecture. Published by Power Publications in NOVEMBER 2009 Book Launch Wednesday 11 November 2009, 6 for 6.30pm Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe Launched by Kate Clark, Director of the Historic Houses Trust NSW RSVP essential [email protected] or (02) 9660 2333 Enquiries [email protected] or (02) 9351 6904 www.arts.usyd.edu.au/centres/power/Power_Publications

Trade enquiries Tower Books: [email protected] or (02) 9975 5566 www.towerbooks.com.au

304pp

PB

220 x 265mm

ISBN 9780909952365

11 colour & 44 duotone illustrations

POWER PUBLICATIONS

Index

$59.95

Australia

Contents Foreword by Roger Benjamin

Part ONE: Art and life edited by Candice Bruce 1 The Bicentenary and the BLOCKbuster, 1988 2 Views, visages, invisibility: Themes in the art of colonial New South Wales, 1988 3 Somersaults in the antipodes, 1993 4 Art and life, 1995 5 Millennial icons for Australia, 1999 6 The possibilities of a National Portrait Gallery, 1999 7 From Alpha to Boulia: Museums and public art in central western Queensland, 2001 8 Papunya Tula: A great contemporary art movement, 2001 9 Artless history or the spectacular results of Centenary of Federation funding, 2002 Part TWO: Art and artists edited by Jo Holder 10 Colonial ladies’ sketchbooks, 1980 11 Secure the Shadow by Anne Brennan and Anne Ferran, 1995 12 The visual art of lying: Monsieur Noufflard’s House, 1984 13 Other voices: More stories, 1988 14 Humphrey McQueen, Tom Roberts, 1996 15 Art begins at Boulia, 1995 16 The art of Vivienne Binns, 1993 17 Past present: The local art of colonial quotation, 1999 18 Fiona MacDonald: Portrait (in four parts), 1998 19 Performing art history, The Machine oiled again, 2002 20 Artists all!, 1999 21 Savages and blackfellas, 2000 Part THREE: Art and architecture edited by Dinah Dysart 22 Making it new: Historic architecture and its recent literature, 1980 23 Our great Victorian architect Edmund Thomas Blacket 1817–1883, 1983 24 Why architects should not write architectural history, 1984 25 Architecture: Casually picturesque, consciously ideal, 1986 26 Architectural history and practice in Australia, 1987 27 Churches—Our Australian architectural heritage, 1988 28 Panopticon versus New South Wales, 1989 29 The artist, the hero and death, 1996 Joan Kerr: A biography by Dinah Dysart List of essential writings Index