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Emily Carr by Lewis DeSoto (Penguin Canada, 2009)
By Michael Cox
The Vancouver Art Gallery has more than 200 works by the west coast artist Emily Carr (1871-1945) in their permanent collection, and it is a rare day when they don’t have at least one room displaying her paintings or drawings. She is, arguably, the best known of early twentieth century British Columbia artists. Running concurrently with this summer’s show of Rembrandt, Vermeer and other Dutch Masters, is the third-floor exhibit, Two Visions: Emily Carr and Jack Shadbolt (to September 13), which contrasts the two local artist’s interpretations of the natural world and First Nations totemic art.
Emily Carr is best known for her iconic paintings of dark forests inhabited by the totem poles and long houses of the first peoples of the Pacific northwest: the Salishan, Nootka, Kwakiutl, Nisga’a, Nuxalk, Heiltsuk, Haida, Tsimshian, and Tlinglit nations whose artistry was once dismissed, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as vestiges of a “savage” culture. It was not only the famous totem poles these people created, but carvings, bentwood boxes, masks and jewellery: now highly collectible, expensive, and revered world-wide as “Canadian” aboriginal art.
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The Omnipresent Man
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Some favourites from a year of reading – ‘new’ books and treasures from my TBR
I seem to say this every year, but 2024 has sent some wonderful books my way from new releases to treasures from the TBR to captivating reissues and rediscoveries. As before, I’m splitting my favourite reads from 2024 into two parts, but in this instance the split is fairly arbitrary. Today’s post covers books from my TBR alongside a handful of new titles, while part two (coming next week) will feature my favourite reissues of the year, with publishers such as Faber Editions, Daunt Books, and McNally Jackson featuring very strongly in the mix.
So, to cut to the chase, here are some of my favourite books from a year of reading! These are the books I loved, the books that have stayed with me, the books I’m most likely to recommend to other readers. I’ve summarised each one in this post, but you can find my full reviews by clicking on the titles.
‘New’ books:
Thunderclap by Laura Cumming
In this stunning, thoroughly absorbing book, the writer and art critic Laura Cumming weaves together three intimately connected strands in the most captivating of ways. Firstly, we have the life and work of the 17th-century Dutch artist Carel Fabritius, prob