[Extraordinary Canadians 01] • Emily Carr · A Penguin Lives Biography
- Authors
- DeSoto, Lewis
- Publisher
- Penguin Global
- Tags
- art , mom , nonfiction , biography & autobiography , file edited , history , biography
- ISBN
- 9780670066704
- Date
- 2008-02-29T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.15 MB
- Lang
- en
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know is how Victorian society dismissed Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto, a painter and novelist, sees Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the essence of art. Her quest to be an independent woman and a modern artist takes her from the studios of Paris to deep inside the remote Native villages of the West Coast forests. It is a lifetime journey of almost mythic proportions in which she struggles to define not only herself but also her country. A creator of extraordinary power, a seeker of mystical truth, a woman of unusual courage, Carr is revealed as one of those unique individuals who articulate the symbols and images by which Canada knows itself.