Gendered tree-scapes in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright

Authors

Anne A. Collett, University of WollongongFollow
Dorothy L. Jones, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

23600

Publication Details

Collett, A. & Jones, D. (2009). Gendered tree-scapes in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright. Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, 42 (3), 75-94.

Abstract

This essay explores the impact of gender, colonial inheritance and European modernism upon the representation of landscape in general, and trees in particular, in the work of two female artists who achieved iconic national status in the twentieth century Canadian painter, Emily Carr and Australian poet, Judith Wright.

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