Defiant Victorian, drawn to the deep forest and the open sky. Early recorder of Northwest Coast monumental art. Painter. Writer. Humorist. Emily Carr is all of these, and she is uniue in the Canadian cultural pantheon.

We know much about Emily Carr, but what of the social and political contexts that surrounded her, that defined her image and her posterity?

This groundbreaking book by three distinguished senior curators -- Charles C. Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom -- and seven equally distinguished Canadian essayists -- Jay Stewart & Peter Macnair, Shirley Bear & Susan Crean, Marcia Crosby, Andrew Hunter, and Gerta Moray -- sheds new light on Emily Carr and her world.

Ian M. Thom is a Senior Curator-Historical at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Involved in Canadian art museums for more than thirty years, he has also held senior curatorial positions at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He has organized more than one hundred exhibitions and written numerous articles and authored or co-authored many books, including Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn, Andy Warhol: Images, Art BC, E.J. Hughes, Takao Tanabe, B.C. Binning, Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon and Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

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Charles Hill has worked for the National Gallery of Canada since 1972 and has been the gallery's Curator of Canadian Art since 1980. His exhibitions include Canadian Painting in the Thirties (1975); John Vanderpant: Photographs (1977); To Found a National Gallery: The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1880-1913 (1980); Morrice: A Gift to the Nation; The G. Blair Laing Collection (1992); William Kurelek (1992); The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (1995) Tom Thomson (2002); Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon (2006); and Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art, 1890-1918 (2013). Hill was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2000 and received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2007.

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"[The book] offers a visual feast for anyone interested in the art of Emily CarrÖ"

Literary Review of Canada

"Like the new exhibit this catalog puts Emily Carr's work in perspective as an important artist and a Canadian icon."

International Art Treasures Web Magazine

Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon