Still controversial, sixty years on: an Emily Carr biographer examines a new cross-Canada exhibition and its accompanying book of essays.(Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian icon )(Book review) From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Literary Review of Canada, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian icon Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill and Johanne Lamoureux, eds. Douglas and McIntyre 336 pages, hardcover ISBN 9781553651734

Shortly before her death in the spring of 1945, Emily Carr told her confidant, Ira Dilworth, that the next generation would probably "scoff" at her honours and consider her "trash." It did not happen quite like this. Carr's contemporaries were successful in keeping her name and her reputation before the Canadian public, apparently defying the wheel of fashion.

They did this in several ways. In 1945 the joint ...

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