Sheridan Palmer Sheridan Palmer i(A141977 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 'The Making of Len' : The Rollicking World of Leonard French Sheridan Palmer , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 409 2019; (p. 32-33)

'Old friendships and close collaborations between author and subject can be either a blessing or a curse in biography – a tightrope between discretionary tact and open fire. Both call for intimate but balanced subjectivity, especially where virile egos are concerned. The Boy from Brunswick, a massive tome with sixty chapters and 540 pages, offers a bit of everything.' (Introduction)

1 Introduction Rex Butler , Sheridan Palmer , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodean Perspective : Selected Writings of Bernard Smith 2018;
1 3 y separately published work icon Antipodean Perspective : Selected Writings of Bernard Smith Rex Butler (editor), Sheridan Palmer (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2018 14732809 2018 anthology criticism

'Bernard Smith (1916–2011) was unquestionably one of Australia’s greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768–1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Australian art to that time. Antipodean Perspective: The Selected Writings of Bernard Smith presents twenty-six art historians, curators, artists and critics, from Australia and overseas, who have chosen a text from Smith’s work and sought to explain its personal and broad significance. Their selections reveal Smith’s extraordinary range as a scholar, his profound grasp of this nation’s past, and the way his ideas have maintained their relevance as we face our future.'  (Publication summary)

1 Writing the Life of Bernard Smith Sheridan Palmer , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Unbound : The National Library of Australia Magazine , September 2017;

'Dr Sheridan Palmer explores the life of art historian and cultural critic Bernard Smith,'

1 Pursuing the Antipodean : Bernard Smith, Identity and History Sheridan Palmer , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Clio’s Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians 2017; (p. 199-226)

'Identity mattered to Bernard Smith, probably more than for most people. As an illegitimate child and a fostered ward of the state, anonymity had haunted him, but it also drove his ambitions. By using these two opposing structures as tension rods, identity and anonymity, he sought validation through his work and recognition as an art and cultural historian. His revision of Australia’s modern cultural evolution, written from a fiercely independent position, was based around colonial inheritance, cultural traffic and transformation, but it was also intended to shake up an ‘uncritical culture’ and situate it in a more conspicuous international position. From the mid-1940s, his historiography became the benchmark for scholars and artists in their pursuit of, or argument with, Antipodean identity and cultural autonomy, and this chapter seeks to explain why Bernard Smith’s rethinking of antipodeanism – a term he coined – and his aim to legitimate Australian culture within a globalised postwar world was a pioneering and brilliant study of cultural origins and evolution; at a personal level it reflected his own genesis.' (Introduction)

1 5 y separately published work icon Hegel's Owl : The Life of Bernard Smith Sheridan Palmer , Sydney : Power Publications , 2016 9635694 2016 single work biography

'Bernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008 Smith invited writer and art historian Dr Sheridan Palmer to write his biography. Through years of interviews and exclusive access to Smith’s papers and library, Palmer reveals the unique character of an exceptional man.' (Publication summary)

1 The Retrieval of Things Past : The Database Doyenne of Australian Colonial Culture Sheridan Palmer , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 353 2013;

— Review of A Most Generous Scholar : Joan Kerr : Art and Architectural Historian Susan Steggall , 2012 single work biography
1 Father of Art History Had Far-Reaching Influence Sheridan Palmer , 2011 single work obituary (for Bernard Smith )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 September 2011; (p. 22) The Age , 8 September 2011; (p. 20)
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