"This book represents the culmination of Doris Shadbolt's long fascination with the work of Carr, a painter she views as one of the strongest and most individual of Canadian artists. It reflects more than a decade of meticulous research, and excerpts form Carr's own prolific writings have been skillfully woven into the narrative, combining with exquisite reproductions of over 200 paintings, charcoals and drawings, two thirds of them in colour, almost all of them specially photographed for this book."--Provided by the publisher.
Record details
ISBN:0888942443
ISBN:0772012555
ISBN:0888944411
ISBN:0295956879
ISBN:9780295956879 :
ISBN:9780888944412
ISBN:9780772012555
ISBN:9780888942449
Physical Description:223 pages : illustrations (mostly colour) ; 33 cm
Publisher:Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1979.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223).
Formatted Contents Note:
0 Prologue. Artist of the Canadian west coast ; The woman behind Carr's writing ; The painting as autobiography -- The background. The Victoria environment ; Home and family -- Early accomplishments. San Francisco ; England ; Vancouver, Victoria ; Commitment to the Indian theme -- French influence. Painting in France ; The French manner continued in British Columbia ; Fifteen years dormant -- Carr at the turning point. The artist at age fifty-six ; 1927 and the crucial trip to eastern Canada -- The mature years commence. "Religion and art are one" ; Important influences: Harris and Tobey ; Last Indian trips -- A formal period. A postcubist reference ; Use of photographs ; A new understanding of the Indian's art ; Shift to the forests -- Wider contacts/Technical changes. A broader context ; Developments in technique ; Charcoal drawings ; Oil-on-paper sketches -- A new liberation. "A picture equals a movement in space" ; The challenge of mountains -- A new integration. Painting, the totality of experience ; A measure of abstraction -- Last period. Return to the Indian theme ; Portraits ; Last nature paintings -- Epilogue. A context of "fresh seeing" ; Carr's "real success" -- List of reproductions and photographs.
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