Emily Carr

by Thom, Ian M.; Hill, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781553651734
• ISBN10: 1553651731
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Summary

Defiant Victorian, drawn to the deep forest and the open sky. Early recorder of Northwest Coast monumental art. Painter. Writer. Humorist. Emily Carris all of these, and she is uniue in the Canadian cultural pantheon. We know much about Emily Carr, but what of the social and political contexts that surrounded her, that defined her image and her posterity? This groundbreaking book by three distinguished senior curators -- Charles C. Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom-- and seven equally distinguished Canadian essayists -- Jay Stewart& Peter Macnair, Shirley Bear& Susan Crean, Marcia Crosby, Andrew Hunter, and Gerta Moray-- sheds new light on Emily Carrand her world.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 5
Preface & Acknowledgements	p. 8
Glossary & Map	p. 10
Reconstructing Emily Carr in Alaska	p. 12
The Other French Modernity of Emily Carr	p. 42
The Presentation of Self in Emily Carr's Writings	p. 62
Backgrounds in Canadian Art: The 1927 Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern	p. 92
A Chronology of Love's Contingencies	p. 156
Emily Carr: Clear Cut	p. 200
Locating Emily Carr: Major Writings on Her Work and Life, 1945 to 1990	p. 248
Exhibiting Carr: The Making and Remaking of a Canadian Icon	p. 258
Notes	p. 283
Works in the Exhibition	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 315
Authors' Biographies	p. 335
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