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Book SynopsisFeaturing almost 300 illustrations, including 90 colour plates, Unsettling Encounters reconstructs a neglected aspect of Carr’s art and is a fresh assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early 20th-century modernism.
Trade ReviewUnsettling Encounters is the most unified, offering an exhaustive narrative of Carr’s engagement with painting village scenes and the arts of the totem poles from the first decade of the 20th century until the mid 1930s. -- Clint Burnham * The Vancouver Sun *
Moray…has written a fascinating and well-researched history on Canadian artist Emily Carr’s expeditions to witness and document native art in British Columbia. More than a history, Moray makes a forceful argument for Carr’s conscious attempt to represent Native art in a manner consistent with Native life and belief, in part as a critique of non-Native national and religious policies. The text is well illustrated with many period photos, the paintings of other artist, and Carr’s own drawings and watercolors…making this a splendid and full resource. * Reference and Research Book News *
Table of ContentsForeword / Marcia Crosby
Places Painted by Emily Carr
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Notes; Bibliographic; Essay; Index
