Customer Review: This is a wonderful INTRODUCTION to Emily Carr's art and how it evolved during her fascinating lifetime. The color plates are well chosen and beautiful reproductions. The text illuminates the plates and presents an excellent account of her life. It is written in the Emily Carr tradition of... more info
Customer Review: At 96 pages, this book charms without trying to be charming. The prose is beautiful, without unnecessary adornment, caring without being sentimental, and wise in its observations about life without preaching. I am always looking out for a 'sleeper'--a book relatively undiscovered and special-- that... more info
Customer Review: Award-winning author and cultural critic Susan Crean gathers previously unpublished writings from Emily Carr's journals, notebooks, and epistles, as well as 42,000 words from Carr's previously published journals for inclusion into Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals Of Emily Carr And Other... more info
Customer Review: Hundreds and Thousands are the journals of Emily Carr, spanning her life from 1927 to 1941. They offer great insight into her artistic development, opening with her visit to Toronto to meet with The Group of Seven, for the first time. Emily Carr is first and foremost known for her paintings, but... more info
Customer Review: As a long time "fan" of the art of Canada's Emily Carr, I was anxious to read more of her writings. Through these letters to "friends", we, the reader, are given another side of Emily Carr. So much has been written about her irascible personality as she grew older; her... more info
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