Emily Carr
Voir autrement - Du modernisme francais a la cote Ouest
- Publisher
- Figure 1 Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2020
- Category
- Canadian, General, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781773270920
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $40
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En 1911, lorsque lartiste canadienne Emily Carr revient de son séjour de seize mois en France, son style pictural est radicalement transformé. Emily Carr : Voir autrement Du modernisme français à la côte Ouest retrace son parcours artistique en France et révèle la profonde influence de lart moderne sur sa représentation des Premières Nations de la côte Nord-Ouest de la Colombie-Britannique. Cet ouvrage réunit des textes de Kiriko Watanabe, conservatrice (avec le soutien de Gail et Stephen A. Jarislowsky) de lAudain Art Museum; Kathryn Bridge, spécialiste de Carr; Michael Polay, chercheur; Robin Laurence, critique dart; et Emily Carr elle-même.
About the authors
Kiriko Watanabe is the assistant curator at the West Vancouver Museum and co-curated an exhibition of Selwyn Pullan’s photographs for the museum.
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Kathryn Bridge, PhD, is an archivist and historian who has curated exhibitions and written about Emily Carr for several decades. Her research is focused on the body of Carr's art and writings held in the BC Archives collections. Exhibitions include Emily Carr: Artist, Author, Eccentric Genius (2001) and The Other Emily (2010) at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria; and Intimate Glimpses: The Early Life of Emily Carr (2011) at the Wing Sang Gallery, Vancouver. Writings include the introduction to Carr's Klee Wyck (2004) and the forewords to Wildflowers by Emily Carr (2003) and Sister and I: From Victoria to London, an illustrated manuscript journal by Carr published in 2011. Bridge's Emily Carr in England is to be published by the Royal BC Museum in 2014.
Robin Laurence is an award-winning freelance writer, critic and curator based in Vancouver. She has a B.F.A. in studio arts and an M.A. in art history, and was educated at the University of Calgary, the University of Victoria, the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Instituto Allende in Mexico. She has written dozens of essays for local and regional galleries, and her articles on art have appeared in many magazines. Laurence was also visual arts critic for the Georgia Strait and the Vancouver Sun.