One of Canada's best known and best loved artists, Emily Carr's passionate nature paintings have been compared to those of Georgia O'Keeffe, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh. She was also a popular writer whose engaging books are still widely read. The 40 full-colour paintings chosen for Beloved Land: The World of Emily Carr from the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery are among Emily Carr's most popular, and they are accompanied by short quotations from her writing. The introduction by Robin Laurence presents revealing insights into the life of this unconventional and gifted woman.
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George Bowering observed that "in British Columbia there is more geography than there is history." Perhaps no one has understood this geography quite as intimately as painter and writer Emily Carr. Born and buried in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, she spent her entire creative life trying to capture the spirit of the place. Beloved Land: The World of Emily Carr is a seductive record of that endeavour, containing 40 reproductions of Carr's dark and sensuous paintings of forest, skies and totem poles, accompanied by passages from her stories, journals, and letters. Though Carr's voluminous writings have been collected in a separate volume, The Complete Writings of Emily Carr, it's instructive to see her words so thoughtfully paired with her paintings here. A lone cedar trunk emerging from a deep green and purple rain forest, for example, is accompanied by a passage from Carr's autobiography, Growing Pains, that begins: "I went no more then to the far villages, but to the deep, quiet woods near home where I sat staring, staring, staring--half lost.…"
Slimmer and more selective than Doris Shadbolt's authoritative The Art of Emily Carr, Beloved Land provides an introduction to Carr's work and makes excellent bedside or seaside reading. It embraces the one essential fact of Carr's career as a painter: her near religious apprehension of the sublimity of the Canadian landscape. --Russell Prather
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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.
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This little gem of a book features color reproductions of several paintings created by Emily Carr. Each image is paired with a bit of her writing, so that one has a sense of what she was thinking during or shortly after painting a particular landscape. This book is an ideal introduction to the art and prose of Emily Carr--not too long and not too short. It makes me want to see and hear more from this admirable Canadian woman.
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Pairing Images with Words
Feb 21 2004
By Rosemary A. Luckett
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This little gem of a book features color reproductions of several paintings created by Emily Carr. Each image is paired with a bit of her writing, so that one has a sense of what she was thinking during or shortly after painting a particular landscape. This book is an ideal introduction to the art and prose of Emily Carr--not too long and not too short. It makes me want to see and hear more from this admirable Canadian woman.
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Amazing 7" × 10" art book
Feb 19 2013
By firefly
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I bought this as she was one of the group of seven. I have books of the other members and for the most part they have some colour prints with many black and white illustrations. This is NOT such a book. All but one of the introduction are black and white but the approximately 50 others are in colour. About 10 are double page and they are large prints, not small photos. Before buying this book my impression was she was a minor member but her prints in this prove she belongs as a central figure in the movement. There are several totem paintings, many landscapes and even a few abstract landscapes. Her use of yellow and white make for some very interesting combinations. This book is worth every penny, in my opinion, and I have about 500 artbooks. Few of the smaller ones can compare.....shu
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