Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

by Emily Carr

Book Overview

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1966, after the legendary artist and writer Emily Carr died in 1945, Hundreds and Thousands consists of her journals from 1927 to 1941. She began keeping a journal in 1927, when, after years of her work being derided and ignored, came unexpected vindication and triumph when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them and encouraged her to overcome the years of despair when she stopped painting. Hundreds and Thousands is the sixth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553651723
• ISBN13: 9781553651727
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

a very revealing and enjoyable read

Hundreds and Thousands are the journals of Emily Carr, spanning her life from 1927 to 1941. They offer great insight into her artistic development, opening with her visit to Toronto to meet with The Group of Seven, for the first time.Emily Carr is first and foremost known for her paintings, but many feel that her writing talent equaled or maybe surpassed her canvas art. In "Hundreds and Thousands" her simple sentence about her impressions while camping - The sun shouts, "Right about face," and every little dandelion looks him plumb in the eye. - reveals her simplistic descriptive wit.Another example that tickled me - The world comes into my room, kicks the silence about, smashes it to smithereens, and builds little cobweb bridges so your thoughts can cross to Germany and Russia, to France - the circumstance was her adjusting to her new radio.