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an amazing and interesting artist not that well known in the united states
I heard about this artist from a friend.I also visited Canada recently, altho not in the area where Emily Carr lived.She is revered in Canada but not nearly as well known in the United States.I personally love her paintings.To me they perfectly respresent the times she lived in and her not so easy life.

Keeping the PNW Spirit Alive
This is one of those books that is a must for any person interested in Pacific Northwest history, art, and culture. I first encountered Emily Carr at an amazing exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. I have been a big fan ever since.

The Art of Emily Carr- Doris Shadboltt
An incredible book fulfilling every Carr fans wishes.Truly a beautiful piece of literature and visuals. I was very impressed with the depth of knowledge the Author had of Ms. Carr and the extensive listing of pictures from private ownership and many Galleries.Contains a complete history of her life, travels, writing and of course her unwavering pursuit of success.An absolute must have for anyone who is a Carr fan.Thoroughly enjoyable.

A West Coast Vision
If you are interested in expanding your knowledge of artists on this continent (North America), specifically the West Coast, I'd recommend this erudite volume on the work of Emily Carr.Emily Carr was a late-bloomer, but when she found her own she produced haunting canvases of her encounters with Northwest Coast Native Art, specifically totems.This was followed by strong formalized images of the coastal rainforest.Late in her life she painted expressive landscapes.I recently read that a joint exhibit of Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Frida Kahlo "Places of their Own" will betravelling to various venues in 200l/2002. ... Read more

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"Some can be active to a great age but enjoy little," observed Emily Carr shortly before her death in 1945. "I have lived." The impressive scope of Carr's art and her unorthodox life are the subjects of art educator Anne Newlands' latest book. In a text that skillfully blends selections from Carr's own writings with illustrated commentary, Newlands creates a delightful look at one of Canada's best-known artists. Emily Carr: An Introduction to Her Life and Art will lead you to the West Coast, where Carr spent much of her life in a world of richly drawn First Nations villages and totems, dark, haunting forests, wild beaches and vast skies. There, you will meet the unconventional woman -- "the little old lady on the edge of nowhere," as she called herself -- who helped define the face of Canadian art.

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Introduction to Emily Carr
This is a wonderful INTRODUCTION to Emily Carr's art and how it evolved during her fascinating lifetime. The color plates are well chosen and beautiful reproductions. The text illuminates the plates and presents an excellent account of her life. It is written in the Emily Carr tradition of "presenting essentials only, discarding everything of minor importance". I am sure Emily would have approved. It is a worthwhile purchase, especially in the paperback edition.

Skimpy
The book was a great dissapointment ,it is certainly not worth 25.00 I am sorry that I ordered it.....Emily Carr needs someone to do a worthy piece on her as she is one of the greatest canadian artist of the 20thcentury....... ... Read more

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Pairing Images with Words
This little gem of a book features color reproductions of several paintings created by Emily Carr.Each image is paired with a bit of her writing, so that one has a sense of what she was thinking during or shortly after painting a particular landscape. This book is an ideal introduction to the art and prose of Emily Carr--not too long and not too short.It makes me want to see and hear more from this admirable Canadian woman. ... Read more

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Spirit of Place
If you are interested in the environment which generated the powerful West Coast Native art, the artist, Emily Carr, conjures it up in this original book.Her travels to their coastal villages are translated into these atmospheric essays.

Beautifully written and visualized
this book by Emily Carr gives a very wonderful and descriptive account of the Pacific Northwest along British Columbia's shores. Emily Carr was a very unique woman who defied her times in her interactions with NativePeoples and her adventurous independance. This book details herexplorations among the Queen Charlotte Islands. It is so descriptive itmakes one feel that they are actually on the west coast. ... Read more

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Lovely!
Lovely stories of growing up in British Columbia, of the native Americans and her efforts to capture their art of totem poles.Humorously told stories by a great Canadian artist of the boarding house she opened and ranto make a living. Simple language with lovely metaphors.

A visionary before her time
Emily Carr has been a most critisized and misunderstood woman of her day.Born in the late 1800's. She did not fit the mold of the Victorian woman. Instead of staying home, raising children, and attending social functions,she befriended the often shunned Native population of Canada, most notablythe Queen Charlotte Islands. She traveled to remote places by way of canoewith the Natives of the land. There, she lived in their homes, sketched andeventually painted their totems, their people.She captured their spirit,both in her heart and on canvas. Emily's art was not acceptable to theVictorian art patrons as women were not "real" painters - it wasa mere hobby. She was not taken seriously. She always heard and saw whatmost people could not.She inhaled the woods, the land, and the Nativepeoples. She followed her own mind and heart, which put her in a positionof being called "difficult". Emily Carr is still a breath offresh air, a maverick of her day. Her view of the world, and how shetranslates a forest into words and canvas is truly an amazing experience. Her books will give you a walk through the forest, her life as a child, andher views on people as well as her affinity with the Native population.Emily will open your world up into a new appreciation for life itself. ... Read more

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Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr's achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast, and her goals and achievements in representing Native villages and totem poles in her paintings and writings. Reconstructing a neglected body of Carr's works that was central in shaping her vision and career makes possible a new assessment of her significance as a leading figure in the history of early twentieth-century Modernism.

Unsettling Encounters includes a vivid recreation of the rapidly changing historical and social circumstances in which Carr painted and wrote. She lived and worked in British Columbia at a time when the growing settler population was rapidly taking over and developing the land and its resources. Gerta Moray argues that Carr's work takes on its full significance only when it is seen as a conscious intervention in settler-Native relations. She examines the work in relation to the images of Native peoples that were then being constructed by missionaries and anthropologists and exploited by the promoters of world's fairs and museums.

Carr's famous, highly expressive later paintings were based to a great extent on the results of her early experience. At the same time they were a response to new currents in North American culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Moray explores Carr's participation in the Group of Seven's agenda to build a national culture and her sense of her own position as a woman artist in this masculine arena.

Unsettling Encounters is the definitive study of Carr's "Indian" images, locating them both within the local context of Canadian history and the wider international currents of visual culture. ... Read more

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Canadian artist of Native American culture and her influence
The varied content on this 20th-century Canadian painter "moves through a series of concentric circles, putting into place the multiple dimensions of the period...." Carr's life and career do not lend themselves to a straightforward, chronological account. While her interests in the regional Native American culture never changed and her artistic subjects and style are distinguishable, how she was regarded by others, especially Canadians, changed. At one time, Carr was seen as a "little old woman on the edge of nowhere" with an inscrutable, but useful and revealing attachment to the western Canadian Native American culture, and at other times seen as a leading and much-lauded artist gaining wide attention for Canada's art and indigenous peoples. Always feeling like an outsider herself, Carr gravitated toward the Native American culture at a time when most Canadians had little interest in it and assumed it would before long die out from neglect and obsolescence. But the 1927 Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern, manifest the Canadian government's changed attention to the country's First Nations. Display of paintings of Carr's at this major Exhibition brought her notice throughout Canada and beyond. She became established as a leading modern Canadian artist not only for her subjects which are now seen as typically Canadian, but also for the modernism of her style. Her paintings of totem poles, totemic figures such as bears and eagles, and buildings and nature scenes have pronounced primitivist and cubist elements; and most are done in bold, simple strokes and patches in darker tones evoking expressionism. With her subjects and her style, Carr made a lasting place for herself in the fields of Native American and modernist art. ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Nonfiction

Selected as Honour Book by the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year

The brilliant artist Emily Carr lived at the edge. When she was born, in 1871, Victoria, British Columbia was a small, insular place. She was at the edge of a society that expected well-bred young ladies to marry. For years, she was at the edge of the world of artists she longed to join.

Emily Carr’s life was not an easy one. She struggled against a family that did not approve of her art and against poor health. She found her pleasures in her many pets – a Javanese monkey named Woo, parrots, and many beloved dogs. Later, she would meet the artists of the Group of Seven and among them find her soul mates.

When illness put a stop to her painting, she found expression and comfort in her writing. Her book Klee Wyck received Canada’s highest literary honor – the Governor General’s Award.

Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World is an introduction to this remarkable artist and her paintings. ... Read more

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a very revealing and enjoyable read
Hundreds and Thousands are the journals of Emily Carr, spanning her life from 1927 to 1941.They offer great insight into her artistic development, opening with her visit to Toronto to meet with The Group of Seven, for the first time.
Emily Carr is first and foremost known for her paintings, but many feel that her writing talent equaled or maybe surpassed her canvas art.
In "Hundreds and Thousands" her simple sentence about her impressions while camping- The sun shouts, "Right about face," and every little dandelion looks him plumb in the eye. - reveals her simplistic descriptive wit.
Another example that tickled me - The world comes into my room, kicks the silence about, smashes it to smithereens, and builds little cobweb bridges so your thoughts can cross to Germany and Russia, to France - the circumstance was her adjusting to her new radio. ... Read more

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42,000 words from Carr's previously published journals
Award-winning author and cultural critic Susan Crean gathers previously unpublished writings from Emily Carr's journals, notebooks, and epistles, as well as 42,000 words from Carr's previously published journals for inclusion into Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals Of Emily Carr And Other Writings. An absorbing and eclectic collection of discourse, the entries range from Carr's father's no-nonsense rendition of the facts of life, to the complete text of Carr's 1913 "Lecture on Totems" concerning Native imagery and Native people, Opposite Contraries is highly recommended -- especially for students of the life and work of Emily Carr, who although best known as an extraordinary painter, was also the author of seven quite popular and critically praised books. ... Read more

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"Short, Sweet, and Hard to Beat"
At 96 pages, this book charms without trying to be charming.The prose is beautiful, without unnecessary adornment, caring without being sentimental, and wise in its observations about life without preaching.I am always looking out for a 'sleeper'--a book relatively undiscovered and special-- that I can give my best friends, aged aunties, young moms, children, that is not trite or trendy or filled with the obvious.The sketches by the author reveal both depth of feeling and simplicity.

This was my introduction to Emily Carr, and a week later I'm half-way through her autobiography (Growing Pains) and looking up her paintings on the Internet.
Enjoy!! ... Read more

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This is the story of a rebellious girl from BC who travelled the world in pursuit of her calling, only to find her true inspirtion in the Canadian landscape she'd left behind.Despite numerous setbacks, she persevered.Today, Emily Carr is a Canadian icon.Her story is a testament to individuality and an inspiration to all. ... Read more