{"product_id":"unsettling-encounters","title":"Unsettling Encounters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnsettling Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e radically re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of Carr’s work that was central in shaping her vision and career, it makes possible a new assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early-twentieth-century North American modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerta Moray vividly recreates the rapidly changing historical and social circumstances in which the artist painted and wrote. Carr lived and worked in British Columbia at a time when the growing settler population was rapidly taking over and developing the land and its resources. Moray argues that Carr’s work takes on its full significance only when it is seen as a conscious intervention in Native-settler relations. She examines the work in the context of images of Native peoples then being constructed by missionaries and anthropologists and exploited by promoters of world’s fairs and museums. Carr’s famous, highly expressive later paintings were based to a great extent on her early experiences of travel to First Nations communities. At the same time they were a response to the hopes and anxieties that attended the rapid modernization of North American culture in the 1920s and ’30s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoray explores Carr’s participation, with the Group of Seven, in an agenda of building a national culture and her sense of her own position as a woman artist in this masculine arena. \u003cem\u003eUnsettling Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive study of Carr’s ‘Indian’ images, locating them within both the local context of Canadian history and the wider international currents of visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerta Moray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615378137468,"sku":"9780774812825","price":69.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774812825_0d8bd205-46a2-4df2-b797-c8a631f09ce8.jpg?v=1727872291","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/unsettling-encounters","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}