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Unsettling encounters : First Nations imagery in the art of Emily Carr
Title:
Unsettling encounters : First Nations imagery in the art of Emily Carr
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Gerta Moray.
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Publication Information:
Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
xiv, 386 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
ISBN:
9780295986081

9780774812825
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-376) and index.
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Contents:
Contexts for a colonial artist. The legendary Emily Carr -- Drawing and insubordination -- Missionary in reverse -- Among ethnographers and Indian agents -- A pictorial record of native villages and totem poles, 1899-1913. They named me Klee Wyck -- The despised and joyous way of painting -- Old mythological legends : Gitöxsan villages in 1912 -- A great dignity : Haida Gwaii in 1912 -- Unchanged by fashion and civilization : Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw villages in 1912 -- The largest collection yet made : Carr's 1913 exhibition in Vancouver and its aftermath -- Plates -- Homesick for Indian. Out of the wilderness and into the National Gallery -- What they are trying to forget : sketching trips from 1928 -- The big thing that means Canada herself -- Retrospect.
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