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Montsalvat : the Intimate Story of an Australian Artists' Colony.
The colourful history of the legendary Melbourne artists' colony, Montsalvat, and the story of its founder Justus Jorgensen as told by his son.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
Allen & Unwin,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Contents; Introduction; Part I; Beginnings; In the beginning was Meldrum; Courtship and travel; Back home; The Jörgensen palette; Part II; From Queen Street to Metery Road; Montsalvat rises; Den of iniquity; The lack of recognition; The Skippers; The first members; From the Bulletin to Pandemonium; The scribe and the gardener; Admiration and disagreements; The seeds of World War II; How to build a utopia; A day at Montsalvat; Justus, Lily and Helen; What the master saw; Building the Great Hall; The nearly blind Welsh conscript, Phil Taffe; Part III; The founding group.
- The founders' childrenThe tradesmen; Part IV; New faces and troubled times; A postwar revival; Confessional and Moscow show trials; An autumn dinner; Four roles; Times of change; Part V; The new beginning; Politicians and others; An exciting time; Pioneers and painters; Festivals; The Eltham Cemetery; Clichy restaurant; The Montsalvat international jazz festivals; The Great Barn fire and the end of an era; Unchartered waters; The Montsalvat Trust; All or nothing; David White and new CEO; Building again; Epilogue; Map of the grounds; Appendix The buildings; Acknowledgements; References.