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Picturing the Land

Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950

by (author) Marylin J. McKay

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2011
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773538177
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $70.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773590960
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $59.95

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Emphasizing the ways in which social, economic, and political conditions determine representation, Marylin McKay moves beyond canonical images and traditional nationalistic interpretations by analyzing Canadian landscape art in relation to different concepts of territory. Taking an expansive and inclusive perspective on Canadian landscape art, McKay depicts this tradition in all its diversity and draws it into the larger body of Western landscape art, broadening the horizon of future study, appreciation, and criticism.

Richly illustrated and filled with sophisticated and innovative commentary, Picturing the Land provides new and distinct histories of the landscape art of French and English Canada.

About the author

Marylin J. McKay is a professor of art history at NSCAD University and the author of A National Soul: Canadian Mural Painting, 1860s-1930s.

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