Mirka Mora interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 746715
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mora, Mirka, 1928-2018, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1984
- 9 sound cassettes (ca. 791 min.) ; 1 7/8 ips.
- Summary:
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Mirka Mora, Australian painter, speaks about her childhood in Paris; her parents; arrest, internment and release from a concentration camp during World War II; time in hiding for the duration of the War; marriage to George Mora; move to Melbourne in 1951; their various galleries and restaurant businesses; friends from the 1950s including Charles Blackman, John Percival, and John and Sunday Reid; her own painting; her house at Aspendale; her lovers; exhibitions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne; her separation from George Mora in 1970; views on the purpose of art and the artist; marriage and death; doll-making; public commissions for murals and other works; workshops with children; set design and her own children.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at St. Kilda, Vic. between 16 March 1984 and 30 March 1984, folow up interview recorded on 10 Oct. 1987.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-196240102
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 434 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Blackman, Barbara, 1928-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Until 2080 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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