"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN:0295986085 (bound)
ISBN:9780295986081 (bound)
Physical Description:xiv, 386 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 31 cm. print
Publisher:Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-376) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Places painted by Emily Carr -- Pt. 1. Contexts for a colonial artist -- 1. The legendary Emily Carr -- 2. Drawing and insubordination -- 3. Missionary in reverse -- 4. Among ethnographers and Indian agents -- Pt. 2. A pictorial record of native villages and totem poles, 1899-1913 -- 5. They named me Klee Wyck -- 6. The despised and joyous way of painting -- 7. Old mythological legends : Gitxsan villages in 1912 -- 8. A great dignity : Haida Gwaii in 1912 -- 9. Unchanged by fashion and civilization : Kwakwaka'wakw villages in 1912 -- 10. The largest collection yet made : Carr's 1913 exhibition in Vancouver and its aftermath -- Plates -- Pt. 3. Homesick for Indian -- 11. Out of the wilderness and into the national gallery -- 12. What they are trying to forget : sketching trips from 1928 -- 13. The big thing that means Canada herself -- 14. Retrospect.
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