Kirjahaku

Margaret Preston, Australia's best-loved woman painter, was a 'red-headed little firebrand.'In argument, she was obstinate: 'Everything sparkled and shook when she was around.'In practice, experimental: still-life was the 'laboratory table on which aesthetic problems can be isolated.'In theory, direct and uncompromising: 'Be Aboriginal.'Elizabeth Butel traces Preston's struggle for artistic and financial independence, as well as her travels throughout the world and Aboriginal Australia in search of inspiration for her art. Her conclusions - that Margaret Preston's vision is as fresh today as it was sixty years ago.

Here's Me - a baby scrapbook with a difference A place for busy mums and dads, or big brothers and sisters, to jot down odd facts and memories about their baby, that one day they will treasure. Twenty-four months of thrilling developments, games, toys, sights and sounds that chart your baby on its unique journey, towards its second birthday. There are extra pages for birthdays, as well as the birth day, and all the special clothes, toys and equipment that you gather together with such love and hope. There are lots of drawings and suggestions, to take the work out of remembering, at a time when you're busier than you've ever been before. What was I like? What did I do? Where did I go? What did I see? This book will help to answer those questions; it will provide you with a storehouse of memories and information to cherish and share with your child later. Here's Me is a special book about your baby.

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, pottery and Wood-blocking. Selected from the pages of Australia's newspapers and art 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," Preston's style is infused with paradox, retaining its freshness, through her very direct, uncompromising attack and accompanied by examples of her woodcuts.