Wilderness, Modernity and Aboriginality in the Paintings of Emily Carr
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8087594 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerta Moray (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., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 43-65 |
| Publication date | 1998-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9495 • E-ISSN: 1911-0251 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcs.33.2.43 |
| OpenAlex | W28750159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
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, Carr’s writings and paintings show her strong and persistent sympathy and admiration for Native peoples and their culture, and her attempts to counteract the negative racial stereotypes and to criticize the injustices of her day. The article focusses on Carr’s confrontations of Native cultural change, for example in her images of Skidegate and Haida Gwaii, and argues that her work has continuing relevance as a statement of respect for First Nations’ traditions and endurance
Admiration · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Carr · Exhibition · Literature · Modernity · Mythology · Painting · Sociology · Totem · Wilderness · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Ecology · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2016 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |