| Description |
1 online resource (332 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
The colourful history of the legendary Melbourne artists' colony, Montsalvat, and the story of its founder Justus Jorgensen as told by his son |
| Notes |
Back cover |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture -- History.
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Artist colonies -- Australia.
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Historic buildings.
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Architecture.
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Artist colonies.
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Historic buildings.
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Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Visual Arts
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781743438725 |
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1743438729 |
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