Gerta Moray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerta Moray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerta |
| FAMILY NAME | Moray |
| SIGNATURE | MORAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gerta Moray teaches Canadian art history at the University of Guelph. Her forthcoming book Unsettling Encounters: The Indian Pictures of Emily Carr examines the mythologization of Carr as a Canadian cultural icon, and reassesses Carr's documentary and interpretive images of Northwest Coast Native culture within the historical contexts of their making. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contest and Controversy
Wilderness, Modernity and Aboriginality in the Paintings of Emily Carr
There is an inherent duality in Emily Cair’s artistic project of recording and commemorating Northwest Coast Native villages and totem poles. Her images fell within a racist paradigm that grounded a modern Canadian national art in the assimilation of the style and motifs of aboriginal art. They were seen as a complement to the Group of Seven’s “wilderness” images, which erased the living aboriginal presence from the landscape. On the other hand, …
Wilderness, Modernity and Aboriginality in the Paintings of Emily Carr
There is an inherent duality in Emily Cair’s artistic project of recording and commemorating Northwest Coast Native villages and totem poles. Her images fell within a racist paradigm that grounded a modern Canadian national art in the assimilation of the style and motifs of aboriginal art. They were seen as a complement to the Group of Seven’s “wilderness” images, which erased the living aboriginal presence from the landscape. On the other hand, …
Wilderness, Modernity and Aboriginality in the Paintings of Emily Carr
There is an inherent duality in Emily Cair’s artistic project of recording and commemorating Northwest Coast Native villages and totem poles. Her images fell within a racist paradigm that grounded a modern Canadian national art in the assimilation of the style and motifs of aboriginal art. They were seen as a complement to the Group of Seven’s “wilderness” images, which erased the living aboriginal presence from the landscape. On the other hand, …
Contest and Controversy
Admiration (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Carr (1 work) · CONTEST (1 work) · Ecology (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)