Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

by Emily Carr, Susan Crean (Editor)

Overview

Collected from Emily Carr’s private and public writings, these previously unpublished pieces reveal the outspoken artist at her most forthright. Expurgated sections from Carr’s journals detail her anguished meditations on her spiritual mission, musings about Native culture and the white community’s reaction to it, and thoughts about her family. Her groundbreaking 1913 “Lecture on Totems”, her first recorded writing on Native art and people, is also included, as are some of her most fascinating letters to friends and colleagues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926685786
Publisher:	D & M Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Emily Carr was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, and died there in 1945. She studied art in San Francisco, London and Paris. Except for a period of fifteen years when she was discouraged by the reception to her work, she was a committed painter. After 1927, when she was encouraged by the praise of the Group of Seven, interest in her paintings grew and she gained recognition as one of Canada’s most gifted artists. Now, nearly sixty years after her death, her reputation continues to grow.

Susan Crean is a well-known writer and cultural critic, most recently of the Emily Carr biography, The Lauging One. She is a frequent contributor to magazines such as Geist, This Magazine, and The Capilano Review and is a former columnist for Canadian Art. Crean was appointed the first Maclean-Hunter chair in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of British Columbia in 1988, and spent more than a decade on the Coast. She currently teaches a course in magazine writing at Ryerson's School of Journalism in Toronto and is working on her next book, a collection of essays on globalization and postmodernism called The End of Art. She is a former chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and is the co-chair of its Copyright/Electronic Rights Committee, and a member of its Social Justice Task Force. She has recently joined the board of Native Earth Performing Arts and divides her time between Toronto and Gabriola Island, B.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Unpublished Emily Carr

Part One
Introduction: Carr’s Journals
The Journals
Simcoe Street, 1930 – 33
The Elephant, 1933
Trip to Chicago, 1933
Moving Forward, 1933-34
Noah’s Ark, 1934
Hopes and Doldrums, 1934-35
Spring and Summer, 1935
A Tabernacle in the Wood, 1935
Beckley Street, 1936
Goodbye to Lizzie, 1936
Hospital, 1937
The Shadow of War, 1938 – 39
New Growth, 1940 – 41

Journal Fragments
Young Town and Little Girl
British Columbia Nightingales
Mother
A Dream
Love
Sophie

Part Two
Introduction: The Public Carr and Klee Wyck
Lecture on Totems
Autobiography
A People’s Gallery
The Expurgated Klee Wyck
Ucluelet
Friends
Martha’s Joey

Part Three
Introduction: Carr’s Correspondence
Letters from Sophie and Jimmy Frank to Emily Carr
Letters from Emily Carr to Ira Dilworth

Bibliography
Emily Carr: A Brief Chronology
Acknowledgements