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The British Columbia wilderness and the First Nations culture formed the two great themes of Emily Carr's work. Through her landscapes and haunting depictions of totems, she is deservedly considered the premier painter of Canada's Pacific coast. After training in San Francisco and Europe, Carr began her career in Vancouver, producing an impressive body of First Nations images in the year 1912. After a prolonged period of relative inactivity, a...

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Culled from the hand-written pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal writings of the iconic Canadian author and artist Emily Carr. This highly readable manuscript--edited by Royal BC Museum curator emerita Kathryn Bridge and illustrated with sketches and photographs from the BC Archives--spans nearly four decade...

In ihrer kanadischen Heimat wird Emily Carr verehrt: als Künstlerin, als Schriftstellerin, als Umweltschützerin der ersten Stunde und als Aktivistin, die früh den Reichtum und die Vielfalt der indigenen Kultur in Kanada erkannte. Der titelgebende Name Klee Weck bedeutet in der Sprache der Ureinwohner der kanadischen Nordwestküste »Die, die lacht«. Ein Ehrentitel, den sie der unerschrockenen jungen Frau verliehen, die sie über Jahre hinweg begl...

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The title of artist, writer, and rebel Emily Carr's first book means "Laughing One, " the nickname given her by the Native people of Canada's west coast. She returned the favor with "Klee Wyck, " a collection of 21 "word portraits" of their lives and ways. The memoir describes in witty, vivid detail Carr's visits and travels as she painted their totem poles and villages and got to know a people whose "quiet strength healed my heart." The book ...

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This print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers. -- Previously unpublished writings from Emily Carr's journals, notebooks and correspondence that provide fresh insights into the life and character of a Canadian legend. EMILY CARR (1871-1945) was an extraordinary writer and artist. Although primarily a painter, she first gained recognition as an author for her seven popular, critically acclaimed books about her journeys...

WINNER OF THE NEW MEASURE POETRY PRIZE | "If ostranenie-to make strange-is the mandate of contemporary poetry, EMILY CARR has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem, the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and ...

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In this much-loved collection of 51 short stories, writer and painter Emily Carr writes of the people and animals in her life. In her inimitable style -- direct, vital, vivid -- she tells of her experiences with Native people, her adventures with birds, her love of nature, and of her mischievous pet monkey Woo. "The Heart of a Peacock" affirms Carr's standing as a writer with the sharp yet tender eye of an artist, with a deep feeling for the t...

This delightful book combines 25 stories about dogs with 16 playful drawings by famous Canadian writer, artist, and animal lover Emily Carr. She tells of her joys and tribulations raising Old English sheepdogs, from her decision to start a kennel to the sad day when she had to close it. With each story Carr brings the affectionate and loyal nature of her canine companions to life, making this book an ideal choice for any dog lover, child, or a...

Victoria, BC, July 11th 191. . . . With red eyes and a body guard of sniffing "faithfuls" attending us, we start on our long trip abroad. . . . So begins Emily Carr's memoirs of her trip to England with her sister Alice. They travel across Canada by rail to board an ocean liner in Quebec City, meeting interesting characters and having many adventures along the way. They hike in "gloriously cool and beautiful" Glacier House, and encounter porcu...

Full of humor and delight, with a playful text and whimsical full color illustrations, Sister and I in Alaska documents Emily and Alice's trip to Skidegate, Juneau, and places beyond, an adventure that proved seminal in the development of Carr as one of the foremost painters of the last century.

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