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Emily Carr Country

Door Courtney Milne e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Natuur
Boeknummer
#369033-AF1
Titel
Emily Carr Country
Auteur
Milne, Courtney & Emily Carr
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0771058896
ISBN13
9780771058899
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped black boards, silver lettered spine, illustrated with numerous (full page) photographs in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting
Though fame came late to Emily Carr, today she is hailed as a major and influential figure in the history of Canadian art and as a writer of unique and extraordinary talent. In this book, Courtney Milne has taken the best of Carr's writing about the land she loved and has matched it to a stunning selection of his own photographs of the West Coast. In a vigorous and colourful post-impressionist style, Emily Carr painted the vanishing native villages and totem poles of her beloved coastal British Columbia, and later in her career produced beautifully lyrical paintings expressive of the spirit and rhythms of Western forests, beaches, and skies. She also poured her talent into books about her life and art, her love of animals and nature, her frustrations and disappointments, her many sources o... (Lees verder)f joy. An annual visitor to the West Coast, Courtney Milne has been making photographs with the words of Emily Carr in mind for close to 20 years. To put this book together he has collected his favourite quotes from Carr and combed through many thousands of his photographs to find the perfect image to match a chosen piece of prose. The result is a spellbinding duet of text and pictures from two gifted and sympathetic artists.
Pagina's
191
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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