Mirka Mora: A Life of Making Art

Name: Mirka Mora: A Life of Making Art
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781760760298
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By Sabine Cotte

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Mirka Mora: A Life of Making Art by Sabine Cotte delves into the artistic journey of Mirka Mora, a beloved figure in Australian culture. The book captures her vibrant personality, creative process, and her influential role in the art community. It offers insights into her life, the passionate exploration of her craft, and how she left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape.
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Format: Hardback

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You might enjoy this book if you're captivated by the vibrant life of artists and their creative processes. It provides a vivid exploration of one of Australia's most beloved and enduring artists, offering insights into her unique approach to art and how she shaped the cultural landscape. This could appeal to anyone who appreciates art's ability to inspire, challenge, and transform both the creator and the viewer.

Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia's most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists.

'I would paint the sky if I was offered it.' - Mirka Mora

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Mirka Mora: A Life of Making Art provides a unique insight into one of Melbourne's most beloved personalities. Revealing an unseen side of Mirka through both her materials and practice, this intimate portrait shares her complex and truly innovative techniques, which until now have not been studied.

Detailing the artist's breadth of practice, her idiosyncratic processes and blend of traditional methods and modern creativity, this book shows how Mirka's various modes of making art connected deep emotions, stories of displacement and loss with major movements of the twentieth century. From Holocaust survivor to Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka expressed the intensity of her personal life through artworks that embodied feminism, the craft movement as well as community art policies of the 1980s.

With privileged access to the artist and her studio, Sabine Cotte offers a new perspective on this extraordinary woman, illuminating Mirka's significance as one of Australia's most compelling, creative and prolific artists.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760760298

Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 July 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 300g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Sabine Cotte

About the Author

Sabine Cotte is a French-Australian paintings conservator. Trained in Paris and Rome, she worked for French national museums for ten years before moving to Melbourne in 2001. She has led several workshops in the Himalayan region for UNESCO, ICCROM and private NGOs, training local people in conservation and in disaster recovery, and has published articles in professional journals and given talks at conferences. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne, where she is also a casual teacher. Her PhD focused on the materials and techniques of Mirka Mora and led to the writing of this book.