The Forest Lover (Vreeland, Susan) - Hardcover

Vreeland, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670032670 ISBN 13: 9780670032679

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2004

Synopsis

The award-winning author of The Passion of Artemisia presents a dramatic, fictional portrait of pioneering artist Emily Carr, whose fierce independence, boldly original artwork, and unconventional approach to life overcame the restrictions of late Victorian society to blaze a new path for twentieth-century women artists. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

Novelist Susan Vreeland has made a career of fictionalising the lives of artists and of particular paintings. In her third novel, The Forest Lover, Vreeland's subject is the courageous Canadian painter Emily Carr, who travelled through native villages and wilderness of British Columbia in the early 1900s, often alone, on a quest to paint totem poles and other artifacts before the indigenous traditions died out and the poles were destroyed or sold. Vreeland's Carr is deeply respectful of the people she meets, and is rewarded with their trust and their stories. She brings the same sensitivity with her to Paris to see the new art, is exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, and returns to Vancouver in 1912 with a style so direct, and colours so expressive, that a conservative local reviewer dubs her a wild beast, literally, a Fauve. Vreeland's strength is in the tacks of emotion during dialogue, and in her nimble, exact prose. As she depicts her, Carr is an endearing and believable balance of sensitivity and determination, an artist of life as well as a remarkable painter. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com

Review:

Vreeland, as the Squamish would say, has made strong talk. (New York Newsday)

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670032670
• ISBN 13: 9780670032679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 333