National Visions, National Blindness
Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Canadian, Native American, General, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774840620
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $99.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812184
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812177
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven’s landscapes became part of a larger program to unify the nation and assert its uniqueness. This book traces the development of this program and illuminates its conflicted history. Leslie Dawn problematizes conventional perceptions of the Group as a national school and underscores the contradictions inherent in international exhibitions showing unpeopled landscapes alongside Northwest Coast Native arts and the “Indian” paintings of Langdon Kihn and Emily Carr. Dawn examines how this dichotomy forced a re-evaluation of the place of First Nations in both Canadian art and nationalism.
About the author
Awards
- Winner, Raymond Klibanksy Prize, The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Contributor Notes
Leslie Dawn is a professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge.