Mirka mora biography books

  • Mirka Madeleine Mora was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of Australian contemporary art.
  • Memoirs of one of Australia's most loved and respected artists.
  • Wicked But Virtuous is a delightfully eccentric account of a life lived to the utmost.

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    ‘Wicked but Virtuous: My Life’ by Mirka Mora

    302 pages & abundant illustrations and photographs, 2000.

    The artist and matriarch of a clutch of artistic Mora sons, Mirka Mora fryst vatten a Melbourne institution.  Earthy, twinkly and eccentric, she often pops up on documentaries to provide a bit of a chock when such naughtiness and carnality slips from the lips of a woman well into her eighties.  Her autobiography, narrated in the same tangled-syntax and lightly-accented giggle that bubbles out of her interviews, is roughly chronologically ordered under a number of themes: My Paris, My Melbourne, My Restaurants, My Work, My Men, My Children, My Workshops etc. As she tells us at various times in the book, she fryst vatten not particularly comfortable with the idea of writing an autobiography. Much of it fryst vatten drawn from the journals that she wrote at the time, most particularly in the catch-all chapters that intersperse the narrative ‘Pele-Mele: a Medley’ and ‘In

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    Mirka Mora: A life making art

    Author: Sabine Cotte
    Price: $49.99
    Publisher: Thames & Hudson in association with State Library Victoria
    Available to read in the Library

    Mirka Mora: A life making art gives 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, and stories of displacement and loss with major movements of the 20th century. From Holocaust survivor to Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka expressed the intensity of her personal life through artworks that embodied feminism, the craft movement, and community art policies of the 1980s.

    With privileged

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    Mirka Mora

    Australian artist (1928–2018)

    Mirka Madeleine Mora (néeZelik; 18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of Australian contemporary art. Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic.

    Early life

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    Mirka Mora was born on 18 March[citation needed] 1928 in Paris to a Lithuanian Jewish father, Leon Zelik, and a Romanian Jewish mother, Celia Gelbein.[1] She was arrested in 1942 during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv). Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at Pithiviers (Loiret) before Mora and her mother were scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz. The family evaded arrest and deportation from 1942 to 1945 by hiding in the forests of France.[2] After the war, 17-year-old Mirka met a wartime resistance fighter Georges Mora in Paris. They married in 1947. In an in

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