The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr by Susan Crean fashion cultivating a career as a

cultivating a career as a popular portrait and genre painter

Since Milne spent as much time writing as he did painting

In 1969 he received the first of three Guggenheim Fellowships to photograph American living environments

ousted as scapegoats

in constant flight from something horrid

The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr by Susan Crean fashion cultivating a career as a8vo. pp. xiii, 496. 1 map & b w illus. biblio. index. bds. dw. [Toronto]: Harper Flamingo, [2001]. New. Much has been written about Emily Carr, seminal Canadian artist; eccentric and cantankerous woman; and appropriator of native culture, but few have explored how and why Carr has become a national touchstone, an icon who has helped us define who we are as Canadians. Writer, art historian and cultural critic Susan Crean does just that in The Laughing