Margaret Preston's essay on The Indigenous Art of Australia, as first published by Art in Australia, Third Series, Number 11, March 1925. Reissued in eBook format in 2016 by ETT Imprint. The publisher is grateful to the Trustee of the Estate of Margaret Preston and the Permanent Trustee Company Limited for granting permission to reproduce the writings and images of Margaret Preston in this book.
Margaret Preston's essay on Pottery As a Profession, first published by Art in Australia, Third Series, Number 32, June-July 1930. Reissued in eBook format in 2016 by ETT Imprint. The publisher is grateful to the Trustee of the Estate of Margaret Preston and the Permanent Trustee Company Limited for granting permission to reproduce the writings and images of Margaret Preston in this book.
No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated'<br /> <br />Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms and ten Preston woodcuts.<br /> <br />No53: 'A lemon can be an inspiration as well as a fruit'
No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated'<br /> <br />Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms, ten Preston woodcuts and fourteen colour plates.<br /> <br />No53: 'A lemon can be an inspiration as well as a fruit'
MARGARET PRESTON is Australia's most original painter. Essentially a pioneer, she strikes out new paths, and her fervour for experiment has led her into diverse forms of art. As she has mastered each new method she discards it and moves on to something fresh. Her latest conquest is the Monotype, and this book reveals her achievement in this field. As a practical craftsman, she found intense pleasure in working out a rare method of making Monotypes that can only be compared with that used by...
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" –...
