Carr, Emily

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The Forest Lover
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The Forest Lover
Susan Vreeland
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ASIN: 0143034308
Release Date: 2004-11-30

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Novelist Susan Vreeland has made a career of fictionalizing the lives of artists and of particular paintings, like Artemisia Gentileschi¹s magnificent Judith in The Passion of Artemisia. In her third novel, The Forest Lover, Vreeland's subject is the courageous Canadian painter Emily Carr, who traveled through native villages and wilderness of British Columbia in the early 1900s, often alone, on a quest to paint totem poles and other artifacts before the indigenous traditions died out and the poles were destroyed or sold. Vreeland's Carr is deeply respectful of the people she meets, and is rewarded with their trust and their stories. She brings the same sensitivity with her to Paris to see the new art, is exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, and returns to Vancouver in 1912 with a style so direct, and colors so expressive, that a conservative local reviewer dubs her a wild beast, literally, a Fauve. Vreeland's strength is in the tacks of emotion during dialogue, and in her nimble, exact prose. As she depicts her, Carr is an endearing and believable balance of sensitivity and determination‹an artist of life as well as a remarkable painter. --Regina Marler

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In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art by capturing an untamed British Columbia and its indigenous peoples just before industrialization changed them forever. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to artists' studios in pre-World War I Paris, Vreeland tells her story with gusto and suspense, giving us a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction.

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Disappointing portrayal of an artist........2007-05-16

The Forest Lover follows real life Canadian artist Emily Carr who finds inspiration in native art and French impressionists. Vreeland, who doesn't understand how race and gender affect visual representation, creates a character that is well intentioned, yet racist. The Forest Lover audiobook sounds like bad TV, where every Indian possesses magical powers and serves as a bridge between the spirit world for the white protagonists. Reader Karen White's Tonto-esque voices make the native characters sound like dumb children stuttering "Me Tarzan, You Jane!" Even more bizarre is White's over the top French accent used to portray Emily's romantic interest. White's reading sounds like Emily is being seduced by Pepe LePew. Sexualized, native drumbeats make the sex scenes even more ridiculous. Since much of the novel takes place in Paris, the listener is continually distracted by White's clichéd and unintentionally humorous French accent. There is something almost doubly offensive about racism disguised as the story of a progressive feminist heroine.

a story with a realistic feel!.......2007-02-21

I have read The Forest Lover three times and I can still smell the fresh paint on the canvas, feel the weather conditions that she encountered, and feel all of the emotions that she shared with her friends and her enemies. This book opens all of your senses and wisks you away from this crazy world. I have found this novel to be one of her finest works.

A painter loving to work.......2006-10-24

I would have been pleased with THE FOREST LOVER if all it had done was introduce me to painter Emily Carr. Happily, this book has even more to offer the reader.

I find it astonishing that Emily Carr is not more widely known outside her native Canada, given her remarkable, often adventurous life. Her career spanned the early decades of the 20th Century, as she worked to paint the dense landscapes, vanishing cultures and totems of the Pacific Northwest in an increasingly expressionistic style, defying convention at a time when "women's painting" was considered a genteel pastime.

Carr's lifelong effort to translate her sights and feelings to paper and canvas is at the heart of this book. This is not the sort of biographical novel that focuses on the artist's social and family life, avoiding the subject of creativity by having it magically occur offstage somewhere. Author Susan Vreeland effectively uses Carr's unpretentious voice to put her creative struggles into words, making them fun and interesting to read about.

There are other notable voices in this book. Vreeland develops distinct spoken styles for her characters, using them in seemingly naturalistic dialogue which express inner thoughts and feelings. One of the voices belongs to the tragic First Nations basket maker Sophie Frank, with whom Carr shares a fond but awkward friendship, fraught with misunderstandings across a cultural divide. Another prominent voice belongs to Harold Cook, the grown son of a missionary. As an abused child he is wrenched from the native culture he loves, and as a disturbed adult finds solace in Carr's work and companionship.

Initially, Emily Carr seems unwaveringly determined and focused, willing to face dangers, disapproval and isolation in order to pursue her art. I had every confidence that her career would follow an unbroken line. But when reading how a financially driven hiatus extended into years of self-doubt, I felt sad and anxious, realizing then just how much I had been drawn into the story.

Fortunately, just in time, Carr is surprised to find herself the object of tardy adulation, as Canada begins a cultural awakening. If this is the way things really happened, I am eager to find out. The novel lays no claim to strict factual accuracy. Never-the-less, there are many human truths found within.

The Forest Lover.......2006-07-25

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and felt like I was part of it.

ENJOYED EVERY PAGE OF THIS ONE.......2006-06-23

The author of this work, The Forest Lover, is truely an artist herself in that she gives us some of the best descriptive writing I have had the pleasure of reading in some time. Having traveled through this part of our world a number of times, I feel the author was pretty well grasp and convey the country into words, just as it is. Wonderful word pictures here. As an added bonus, the author herself, is not a bad historian and has been able to capture this age quite well, it's attitudes, good and bad. Being an artist myself (a complete rank amature), I enjoyed the story. The author is also quite strong in her character developement and has a wonderful syntax. She is obviously a natural story teller. Recommend this one highly.

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

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Canadian artist of Native American culture and her influence

Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr
Emily Carr
Manufacturer: UBC Press
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ASIN: 0295986085

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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.

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Canadian artist of Native American culture and her influence.......2007-03-06

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.

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Keeping the PNW Spirit Alive
The Art of Emily Carr- Doris Shadboltt
A West Coast Vision

The Art of Emily Carr
Doris Shadbolt
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Emily Carr (1871-1945) traveled to remote regions for inspiration for her art, vibrantly chronicling the rich culture of Northwest indigenous people and the dense forest of the West Coast. Carr's spiritually infused work was controversial in its day; today she is considered a master of the style. This book reflects more than a decade of meticulous research and includes reproductions of over 200 paintings, charcoals, and drawings, as well as extensive quotes from the artist, who was also a writer.

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Keeping the PNW Spirit Alive.......2006-05-10

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.......2003-11-28

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.......2001-02-18

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 be travelling to various venues in 200l/2002.

Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth

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Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth

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ASIN: 0802038778

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Emily Carr (1871-1945) is an iconic figure in Canadian culture, known internationally for her painting and her writing, which depicted the extraordinary British Columbia mountain landscape along with its indigenous inhabitants and their cultural iconography. Carr's writing career came later in her life, and as it developed, she met Ira Dilworth, the British Columbia Regional Director for CBC Radio who came to play a significant role in her life. Corresponding Influence is a collection of selected correspondence the two shared over the life of their friendship.

Over the years, Dilworth acted variously as Carr's editor, writing agent, sounding board, professional and personal advisor, and most importantly, close friend and confidante. The letters provide a narrative for the latter part of Carr's life and illuminate the impression Dilworth made on the development of her writing. In addition to a critical introduction and annotation throughout, editor Linda Morra has included an unpublished story by Carr called "Small's Gold." Corresponding Influence will prove essential reading to anyone hoping to understand Emily Carr's extraordinary life and work.</p>

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The Complete Writings of Emily Carr
Emily Carr
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Lovely!.......1999-09-24

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 ran to make a living. Simple language with lovely metaphors.

A visionary before her time.......1999-05-30

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 notably the Queen Charlotte Islands. She traveled to remote places by way of canoe with the Natives of the land. There, she lived in their homes, sketched and eventually painted their totems, their people. She captured their spirit, both in her heart and on canvas. Emily's art was not acceptable to the Victorian art patrons as women were not "real" painters - it was a mere hobby. She was not taken seriously. She always heard and saw what most people could not. She inhaled the woods, the land, and the Native peoples. She followed her own mind and heart, which put her in a position of being called "difficult". Emily Carr is still a breath of fresh air, a maverick of her day. Her view of the world, and how she translates 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, and her 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.

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Emily Carr Country

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Though fame came late to Emily Carr, today she is hailed as a major and influential figure in the history of Canadian art and as a writer of unique and extraordinary talent. In this book, Courtney Milne has taken the best of Carr’s writing about the land she loved and has matched it to a stunning selection of his own photographs of the West Coast.

In a vigorous and colourful post-impressionist style, Emily Carr painted the vanishing native villages and totem poles of her beloved coastal British Columbia, and later in her career produced beautifully lyrical paintings expressive of the spirit and rhythms of Western forests, beaches, and skies. She also poured her talent into books about her life and art, her love of animals and nature, her frustrations and disappointments, her many sources of joy.

An annual visitor to the West Coast, Courtney Milne has been making photographs with the words of Emily Carr in mind for close to 20 years. To put this book together he has collected his favourite quotes from Carr and combed through many thousands of his photographs to find the perfect image to match a chosen piece of prose. The result is a spellbinding duet of text and pictures from two gifted and sympathetic artists.

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The House of All Sorts
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Before winning recognition as an artist and writer, Emily Carr served as landlady to an apartment building where she bred English sheep dogs to supplement a meager income. A collection of stories about those hard-working days, The House of All Sorts features vividly portrayed tenants who frequently surprise Carr with their foibles, as well as the beloved canines who provide her with companionship. Carr is at her most acerbic and rueful, but also filled with vitality and an inextinguishable hope.

Emily Carr: An Introduction to Her Life and Art

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Introduction to Emily Carr
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Emily Carr: An Introduction to Her Life and Art
Anne Newlands
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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. </p>

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Introduction to Emily Carr.......2006-04-02

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.......2000-07-26

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 20th century.......

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Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World
Jo Ellen Bogart
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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.

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