A Singular Voice is the first collection of essays by Joan Kerr, controversial and popular Australian art and architecture scholar, historian, curator, feminist and public speaker. The essays are wide-ranging, covering colonial architecture, contemporary Aboriginal art, the forgotten and marginalised of Australian art and craft, and the importance of art in everyday life. Collected from 30 years of Kerr's writing, A Singular Voice embodies a history of changing attitudes to Australian art and architecture.
A Singular Voice : Essays on Australian Art and Architecture
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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.