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Author | : Deborah Edwards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9780500500224 |
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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 |
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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 | : Roger Butler |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780642541857 |
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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 | : Margaret Preston |
Publisher | : ETT Imprint |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1925416232 |
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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 |
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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 | : Mary P. Coulling |
Publisher | : Blair |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Stacey Jean Klein |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781570037047 |
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A look at the life and prolific writings of Stonewall Jackson's sister-in-law
Author | : Margaret Junkin Preston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Art Gallery Art Gallery of NSW |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9780500500682 |
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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.
Author | : Elizabeth Butel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art, Australian |
ISBN | : 9781875892020 |
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The best-selling book on the Australian artist was originally prepared by Penguin to support the 1985 Preston travelling exhibition. Elizabeth Butel lookat the vibrant art and craft of Australia's most popular woman artist through the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.