Picturing the land : narrating territories in Canadian landscape art, 1500-1950 / Marylin J. McKay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Geographies of the mind : art-maps of French and English Canada, 1500 to 1760 -- Place and displacement : drawings and watercolours in French and English Canada, 1600 to 1830 -- Hopes and promises : resident artists in English Canada, 1830s to 1860s -- Our faith, our language, our institutions : territory and sédentarisme in French Canada, 1830s to 1860s -- Arcadia, Eden, and nationalism : farmland in English Canada, 1870 to 1915 -- Promises of survival : territory and sédentarisme in French Canada, 1880s to 1940s -- Man hath dominion : wilderness landscapes in English Canada, 1870 to 1913 -- A Canadian school for sure : Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, 1913 to 1930 -- "O God, what have I seen?" : the cult of the Group of Seven, 1920 to 1931 -- Into humanity instead of the woods : the 1930s in French and English Canada -- Where do we go from here? : modernism versus landscape at mid-century.

"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."-- EBSCOhost resource page, viewed November 9, 2021.

English.

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