Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings - Softcover

Carr, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553651103 ISBN 13: 9781553651109

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006

Synopsis

Collected from Emily Carr’s private and public writings, these previously unpublished pieces reveal the outspoken artist at her most forthright. Expurgated sections from Carr’s journals detail her anguished meditations on her spiritual mission, musings about Native culture and the white community’s reaction to it, and thoughts about her family. Her groundbreaking 1913 Lecture on Totems”, her first recorded writing on Native art and people, is also included, as are some of her most fascinating letters to friends and colleagues.

About this title

About the Author:

Young, spirited and rebellious, Emily Carr escaped a strict Victorian household to study art in the Paris of Picasso and Matisse. In middle age, she shook the dust of acceptable society from her shoes and began a passionate journey into the wilderness of British Columbia; the power of her genius made her one of the twentieth century's great painters. Fortunately, she also wrote. In her books, her warmth, her humanity, her sense of fun and the ridiculous combine to present a self-portrait of a remarkable woman and artist.Mary Pratt

About this edition

• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1553651103
• ISBN 13: 9781553651109
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Crean Susan