Margaret Preston
Recipes for Food and Art
$41.34
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
Summary
Celebrated for her vibrant and distinctive images of Australian 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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881851 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522881858 |
| Author: | Lesley Harding |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 225mm x 172mm |
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About The Author
Lesley Harding
Lesley Harding is artistic director at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. She has written a number of books on Australian art and social history, including Cubism and Australian Art (with Sue Cramer), Mirka and Georges: A Culinary Affair (2018), Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed (2015) which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction, Living at Heide, Sunday’s Garden: Growing Heide (2012) and Sunday’s Kitchen: Food and Living at Heide (2010) (all with Kendrah Morgan).
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