Colour and movement : the life of Claudio Alcorso

Select an Action

Title:

Colour and movement : the life of Claudio Alcorso / Stephenie Cahalan.

Author/Creator:

Cahalan, Stephenie, author.

Publication:

Hobart, Tasmania : Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd, [2019]

Physical description:

xv, 192 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 21 x 24 cm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. A Roma -- 2. Silken things -- 3. Colour and movement -- 4. Artists are always right -- 5. Power to the people -- 6. In vino veritas -- 7. Moorilla to Mona -- 8. Channelling Claudio.

Summary:

"... tells the story of one man's journey from a luxurious life in elite Rome, to that of the bankrupted tenant on Moorilla Estate in Tasmania. There he watched as the winery he had created transformed into Mona, the dissident private museum that has reshaped contemporary Tasmania. 'Colour and Movement' is a portrait of a humanist, entrepreneur, patron of the arts and conservationist. Following his flight from facism and anti-Semitism, Alcorso joined the leading edge of Australia's twentieth century multicultural and artistic awakening; a champion of textiles and the arts, pioneer of Tasmania's cool-climate wine industry, and architect of Hobart's modern cultural blueprint."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9780648532828

Portion of title:

Life of Claudio Alcorso

Record ID:

SD_ILS:1316532

Available:

Library	Shelf Location	Shelf Number	Item Category 2	Item category 3	Status
Searching... Cygnet Library	Adult non-fiction	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Tas content	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Glenorchy Library	Local Studies Collection	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Undefined	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Hobart Library	Adult non-fiction	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Tas content	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Huonville Library	Adult non-fiction	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Tas content	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Longford Library	Adult non-fiction	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Tas content	Searching... Unknown
Searching... New Norfolk Library	Adult non-fiction	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Tas content	Searching... Unknown
Searching... State Library Reading Room	Reference	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Undefined	Searching... Unknown
Searching... State Library Reading Room (Tas)	Tas Stack	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Undefined	Searching... Unknown
Searching... State Library Reading Room (Tas)	Tas Stack	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Undefined	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Westbury Library	Adult non-fiction	920.71 ALC	Adult General	Tas content	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

Claudio Alcorso was expansive, generous, ruthless, sentimental and visionary.Colour and Movement: the life of Claudio Alcorso tells the story of one man's journey from a luxurious life in elite Rome, to that of the bankrupted tenant on Moorilla Estate in Tasmania. There he watched as the winery he had created transformed into Mona, the dissident private museum that has reshaped contemporary Tasmania.Colour and Movement is a portrait of a humanist, entrepreneur, patron of the arts and conservationist. Following his flight from fascism and anti-Semitism, Alcorso joined the leading edge of Australia's twentieth century multicultural and artistic awakening; a champion of textiles and the arts, pioneer of Tasmania's cool-climate wine industry,and architect of Hobart's modern cultural blueprint.