Emily Carr

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know is how Victorian society dismissed Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto, a painter and novelist, sees Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the essence of art. Her quest to be an independent woman and a modern artist takes her from the studios of Paris to deep inside the remote Native villages of the West Coast forests. It is a lifetime journey of almost mythic proportions in which she struggles to define not only herself but also her country. A creator of extraordinary power, a seeker of mystical truth, a woman of unusual courage, Carr is revealed as one of those unique individuals who articulate the symbols and images by which Canada knows itself.

• Author
• Lewis DeSoto, Richard Muscat, John Ralston Saul

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 204

• Series
• Extraordinary Canadians

• Publisher
• Penguin Global

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780670066704

• Characters
• Emily Carr

• Genres
• biography, canada, art, history

• Release date
• 2011