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Margaret Preston : recipes for food and art, Lesley Harding

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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."--Website
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xv, 239 pages
Note
"This is number one hundred and seventy in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes made possible by the Miegunyah Fund established by bequests under the wills of Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade"
Isbn
9780522870121
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Label
Margaret Preston : recipes for food and art
Title
Margaret Preston
Title remainder
recipes for food and art
Statement of responsibility
Lesley Harding
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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."--Website
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Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
ANL
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Harding, Lesley
Dewey number
  • 759.994
  • 641.5
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • facsimiles
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Miegunyah Press series 2
Series volume
no 170
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Preston, Margaret
  • Women painters
  • Artists
  • Painting, Australian
  • Art, Australian
  • Cooking in art
  • Painting, Australian
  • Art, Australian
  • Cooking
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Margaret Preston : recipes for food and art, Lesley Harding
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Publication
Copyright
Note
"This is number one hundred and seventy in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes made possible by the Miegunyah Fund established by bequests under the wills of Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade"
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • still image
  • cartographic image
  • text
Content type code
cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000057405605
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xv, 239 pages
Isbn
9780522870121
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other control number
40026525471
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly colour), 1 map, portraits (some colour), facsimiles
System control number
(OCoLC)949854496
Label
Margaret Preston : recipes for food and art, Lesley Harding
Publication
Copyright
Note
"This is number one hundred and seventy in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes made possible by the Miegunyah Fund established by bequests under the wills of Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade"
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • still image
  • cartographic image
  • text
Content type code
cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000057405605
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xv, 239 pages
Isbn
9780522870121
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other control number
40026525471
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly colour), 1 map, portraits (some colour), facsimiles
System control number
(OCoLC)949854496

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