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

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Unsettling Encounters radically
re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in
representing Native life on the Northwest
Coast in her painting and writing. By
reconstructing a neglected body of Carr’s
work that was central in shaping her vision
and career, it makes possible a new
assessment of her significance as a leading
figure in early-twentieth-century North
American modernism.
Gerta Moray vividly recreates the rapidly
changing historical and social circumstances
in which the artist painted and wrote. Carr
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. Moray argues that
Carr’s work takes on its full significance only
when it is seen as a conscious intervention
in Native-settler relations. She examines the
work in the context of images of Native
peoples then being constructed by missionaries
and anthropologists and exploited
by promoters of world’s fairs and museums.
Carr’s famous, highly expressive later
paintings were based to a great extent on
her early experiences of travel to First Nations
communities. At the same time they were
a response to the hopes and anxieties that
attended the rapid modernization of North
American culture in the 1920s and ’30s.
Moray explores Carr’s participation, with
the Group of Seven, in an agenda of building
a national culture and her sense of
her own position as a woman artist in this
masculine arena.

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Weight:	1.97 kg
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ISBN-10:	0774812826
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780774812825
Author:	Gerta Moray
Publisher:	UBC Press Vancouver
Publication Date:	6/2006
Pages:	400 pp
Size/Dimensions:	12 x 9
Binding:	Hardcover

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Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carrby Gerta Moray

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