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Emily Carr : fresh seeing--French modernism and the West Coast

Emily Carr : fresh seeing--French modernism and the West Coast

Watanabe, Kiriko, author.
Book 2019

"In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style, one that broke free from the artistic shackles of her conservative training and embraced a new means of expression. Her studio experiences in Paris, her en plein-air painting in the French countryside, and her encounters with such artists as expatriate English painter William Henry Phelan Gibb,...

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Carr, Emily, 1871-1945 Exhibitions
Modernism (Art) British Columbia Exhibitions
Modernism (Art) France Exhibitions
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ISBN:
9781773270913
1773270915
Description:
159 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Title:
Fresh seeing : French modernism and the West Coast
Notes:
Published in conjunction with the travelling exhibition of the same name held at the Audain Art Museum from September 21, 2019 to January 19, 2020, and at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B. from March 1 to May 31, 2020
Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Director's foreword / Dr. Curtis Collins
"Everyone said Paris was the top of art": Emily Carr's French journey to modernism / Dr. Kathryn Bridge
1911 Exhibition at the Paris Salon d'Automne / Dr. Michael Polay
A fresh look at the Northwest Coast / Kiriko Watanabe
Looking at "fresh seeing" / Robin Laurence
Control Number:
2795079
Other Authors:
Audain Art Museum, host institution, publisher
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, host institution
Bridge, Kathryn, 1955- author
Carr, Emily, 1871-1945. Works. Selections
Laurence, Robin, 1950- author
Polay, Michael, author
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