Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image (University of British Columbia Press Pacific Maritime Studie)
Description
Jack Shadbot was inspired in his formative years by hi contact with Emily Carr and with her brooding works portraying the remnants of Indian villages against the overwhelming wilderness. He made sketches of Indian artifacts and the Cowichan Reserve in the 1930s, but it was only after World War II that elements of Indian art began tooshow up in his style. Marjoria Halpin finds in the changes in the way Indian forms occur in Shadbolt’s paintings an appropriate expression of the changing attitudes of British Columbians to native society and the political will the native people now manife...
ISBN(s)
0774802626, 9780774802628
