Judith Wright and Emily Carr: Gendered Colonial Modernity

Judith Wright and Emily Carr were two pioneering female artists in the British colonies who broke ground for modernist art and influenced political and social debates about environment and indigenous rights. Their experience of colonial modernity was analogous, and their cultural importance endures through their poetry and painting.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr were two women who broke new ground for female artists in the British colonies and influenced the political and social debates about environment and indigenous rights that have shaped Australia and Canada in the 21st century. This ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of their lives and work, charting the battle for recognition of their modernist art and vision and pointing out significant moments of similarity in their lives and work. Although separated by thousands of miles, their experience of colonial modernity was startlingly analogous, as white settler women bent on forging artistic careers in a male-dominated world and sphere rigged against them. Through all this, their cultural importance endures; two remarkable women whose poetry and painting still speak to us today of their passionate belief in the transformative power of art.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350188396