The art of Emily Carr
Record details
- ISBN: 0888942443
- ISBN: 0772012555
- ISBN: 0888944411
- ISBN: 0295956879
- ISBN: 9780295956879 :
- ISBN: 9780888944412
- ISBN: 9780772012555
- ISBN: 9780888942449
- Physical Description: 223 pages : illustrations (mostly colour) ; 33 cm
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1979.
- Copyright: ©1979.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223). |
Formatted Contents Note: | 0 Prologue. Artist of the Canadian west coast ; The woman behind Carr's writing ; The painting as autobiography -- The background. The Victoria environment ; Home and family -- Early accomplishments. San Francisco ; England ; Vancouver, Victoria ; Commitment to the Indian theme -- French influence. Painting in France ; The French manner continued in British Columbia ; Fifteen years dormant -- Carr at the turning point. The artist at age fifty-six ; 1927 and the crucial trip to eastern Canada -- The mature years commence. "Religion and art are one" ; Important influences: Harris and Tobey ; Last Indian trips -- A formal period. A postcubist reference ; Use of photographs ; A new understanding of the Indian's art ; Shift to the forests -- Wider contacts/Technical changes. A broader context ; Developments in technique ; Charcoal drawings ; Oil-on-paper sketches -- A new liberation. "A picture equals a movement in space" ; The challenge of mountains -- A new integration. Painting, the totality of experience ; A measure of abstraction -- Last period. Return to the Indian theme ; Portraits ; Last nature paintings -- Epilogue. A context of "fresh seeing" ; Carr's "real success" -- List of reproductions and photographs. |
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Subject: | Carr, Emily -- 1871-1945 Painters -- Canada -- Biography |
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Elkhorn Branch - Border Regional Library | 759.11 Sha - E (Text) | 36830002924510 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |