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| Author | : Deborah Edwards |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Artists |
| ISBN | : 9780500500224 |
This richly illustrated monograph is the first publication to look in detail at the life and art of Margaret Preston, an artist who practised in her native Australia from the mid-1890s right up to her death in 1963.
| Author | : Lesley Harding |
| Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-10-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0522870139 |
Celebrated for her vibrant and distinctive pictures of indigenous flowers, artist Margaret Preston was an equally colourful and outspoken personality. Less well known is her legacy as a generous and insightful teacher and keen cook, and her deep sense of civic duty. She was passionate about the need for a modern national culture that reflected everyday life. For Preston, the building blocks of such a culture were not to be found in the Australian pastoral landscape tradition, but in the home and garden. Maintaining that art should be within everyone's reach, she published widely on the methods and techniques of a host of creative pursuits—from pottery, printmaking and basket weaving, to the gentle art of flower arranging. She devoted much of her career to the genre of still life, depicting humble domestic objects and flowers from her garden, and often painting in the kitchen while keeping 'one eye on the stew'. Drawing on recipes from handwritten books found in the National Gallery of Australia and richly illustrated with Preston's paintings, prints and photographs this book sheds new light on the fascinating private life of a much-loved Australian artist.
| Author | : Margaret Preston |
| Publisher | : ETT Imprint |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2018-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1925416232 |
Never shy of voicing an opinion, artist Margaret Preston launched into print on a variety of subjects, from flower arranging and furnishing a bedroom, to Aboriginal art and design, Pokerwork and Wood-blocking. Selected from the pages of Australia's journals by Elizabeth Butel, this collection addresses Preston's recurring preoccupations - "modern" art, an Australian national art and the craft of art-making. "The natural enemy of the dull" - Preston's style is infused with paradox, retaining its freshness through her very direct, uncompromising attack and illustrated with examples of her woodcuts.
| Author | : Elizabeth Butel |
| Publisher | : ETT Imprint |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2018-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1925416151 |
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand of a woman', she was an artist who never stood still, moving from realism to Post-Impressionism, to an Aboriginal-inspired style of art with unceasing verve and freshness.
| Author | : Roger Butler |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780642541857 |
This revised and enlarged edition of The Prints of Margaret Preston includes thirteen new works discovered since the original publication in 1987, and twenty-two works that are reproduced for the first time. Margaret Preston (1875-1963) is one of Australia's most celebrated modernists. In the 1920s and thirties she created exuberant decorative compositions which have remained among the most popular of all Australian artworks. Modern, cosmopolitan, and intensely colored, Preston's woodblock prints and paintings of still-life subjects and the Sydney metropolis captured a moment of extraordinary innovation in the history of Australian art. Preston was the country's first serious advocate of Aboriginal art; her early appropriation and promotion of Aboriginal imagery to the cause of modernism has contributed to her ongoing significance.
| Author | : Kolan Morelock |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2008-08-22 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0813173051 |
The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil. The complicated tensions between the identity of a city and the character of a university can challenge both communities. Lexington, Kentucky, displays these characteristic conflicts, with two historic educational institutions within its city limits: Transylvania University, the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the University of Kentucky, formerly “State College.” An investigative cultural history of the town that called itself “The Athens of the West,” Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in Lexington, Kentucky, 1880–1917 depicts the origins and development of this relationship at the turn of the twentieth century. Lexington’s location in the upper South makes it a rich region for examination. Despite a history of turmoil and violence, Lexington’s universities serve as catalysts for change. Until the publication of this book, Lexington was still characterized by academic interpretations that largely consider Southern intellectual life an oxymoron. Kolan Thomas Morelock illuminates how intellectual life flourished in Lexington from the period following Reconstruction to the nation’s entry into the First World War. Drawing from local newspapers and other primary sources from around the region, Morelock offers a comprehensive look at early town-gown dynamics in a city of contradictions. He illuminates Lexington’s identity by investigating the lives of some influential personalities from the era, including Margaret Preston and Joseph Tanner. Focusing on literary societies and dramatic clubs, the author inspects the impact of social and educational university organizations on the town’s popular culture from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era. Morelock’s work is an enlightening analysis of the intersection between student and citizen intellectual life in the Bluegrass city during an era of profound change and progress. Taking the Town explores an overlooked aspect of Lexington’s history during a time in which the city was establishing its cultural and intellectual identity.
| Author | : Jennifer Higgie |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2021-10-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1643138049 |
A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
| Author | : Stacey Jean Klein |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781570037047 |
A look at the life and prolific writings of Stonewall Jackson's sister-in-law
| Author | : Mary P. Coulling |
| Publisher | : Blair |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Personal recollections of the Federal occupation of Lexington, Va., of wartime tragedies, and of the pervasive horror, blood, and havoc of battle make this a compelling biography for readers seeking to understand the effects of the Civil War on a sensitive woman.
| Author | : Art Gallery Art Gallery of NSW |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : Artists |
| ISBN | : 9780500500682 |
Bearing 'the conspicuous mark of talent' from an early age, the fiercely independent and opinionated Margaret Preston is one of Australia's most innovative early modernists. From the 1920s Preston moved rapidly to the forefront of Australian progressive art, producing a body of work that has remained crucially important to the traditions of Australian art. Her search for the essential truths of the Australian conditions as the basis for an authentic, modern, national art consumed her working life. This edition re-released as a hardback, features a new introduction, curator Deborah Edwards and looks in detail at the life and art of this extraordinary artist from the mid 1890s in Adelaide to her life in Sydney in 1963. Also featuring a CD-ROM catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, this richly-illustrated monograph is unrivalled in its scope.
