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Gerta Moray - Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr - 9780774812825 - V9780774812825
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Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr

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Description for Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr Hardback. Featuring almost 300 illustrations, including 90 colour plates, Unsettling Encounters reconstructs a neglected aspect of Carr's art and is a fresh assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early 20th-century modernism. Num Pages: 400 pages, 283 illus., 83 in color. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7747 x 5817 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1974.

Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of Carr’s work that was central in shaping her vision and career, it makes possible a new assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early-twentieth-century North American modernism.

Gerta Moray vividly recreates the rapidly changing historical and social circumstances in which the artist painted and wrote. Carr 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. Moray argues ... Read more

Moray explores Carr’s participation, with the Group of Seven, in an agenda of building 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 within both the local context of Canadian history and the wider international currents of visual culture.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774812825
SKU
V9780774812825
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Gerta Moray
Gerta Moray is a professor of Art History at the University of Guelph. She has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Edinburgh, Stirling, and Toronto.

Reviews for Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr
Unsettling Encounters is the most unified, offering an exhaustive narrative of Carr’s engagement with painting village scenes and the arts of the totem poles from the first decade of the 20th century until the mid 1930s.
Clint Burnham
The Vancouver Sun
Moray…has written a fascinating and well-researched history on Canadian artist Emily Carr’s expeditions to witness and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr


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