From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia
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Review "This dynamic book moves confidently between Carr’s wonderful work and the First Nations culture that inspired her." (Andrea Carson Barker Quill & Quire 2015-05-01)"While there is no doubt that Emily Carr herself is the subject of From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, the curators have taken considerable care to acquire the Native perspective on Carr’s work." (Maria Tippett BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly 2016-12-30)"This is an indispensable guide and provides enrichment to both the neophyte and stalwart Carr researcher. [Carr’s] inexpressible exuberance and free-flowing imagination are given colour and her sensibility heightened in these pages." (Anne Burke The Prairie Journal 2015-06-01) Read more From the Inside Flap Emily Carr captures the natural and cultural landscapes of British Columbia like no other artist before or after her. From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia gathers work from all phases of this extraordinary artist's career — from her delicate early watercolours of the 1890s to her bold painterly hybrids of the 1930s and 1940s, which marry European and North American Modernist traditions with the formal stylizations of Indigenous design. Carr's lifelong fascination with British Columbia's original inhabitants transformed her. Visiting First Nations villages up and down the coast, she absorbed the essence of the place she loved so well. Those experiences changed her life and charged her work, inspiring her imagination. This monumental volume features more than 100 colour reproductions of Carr's work, including some of her most renowned paintings, in dialogue with dozens of Indigenous artifacts from the Pacific Northwest: historic masks, baskets and ceremonial objects by Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, Salish, Tlingit and Tsimshian makers. Drawn from public and private collections, including the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, these artifacts illuminate Carr's connections to Indigenous cultures and allow readers to contemplate the attachment to landscape from both European and Indigenous perspectives. Read more About the Author Sarah Milroy is a Toronto writer and art critic. She served as editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine (1991–1996) and as art critic for the Globe and Mail (2001–2010). Milroy has contributed to publications on the work of Gathie Falk, Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe and Fred Herzog, and is a regular contributor to Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and the Walrus. Ian A.C. Dejardin is an art historian and director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in Dulwich, southeast London, England. He succeeded Desmond Shawe-Taylor as director in 2005 and was previously a chief curator at the gallery from 1998. Read more
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