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• Title:Beyond wilderness : the Group of Seven, Canadian identity, and contemporary art / edited by John O'Brian & Peter White.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:O'Brian, John, 1944- editor.
  White, Peter, 1949 August 12- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
  

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  • Call Number: ND1352.C3 B49 2017
    
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  • Call Number: ND1352.C3 B49 2017
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Landscape painting, Canadian--20th century.
  Nationalism and art--Canada.
  Nature in art.
  Canada--In art.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:""The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In Beyond Wilderness, John O'Brian and Peter White pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that since the 1960s a growing body of both art and critical writing has looked "beyond wilderness" to re-imagine landscape in a world of vastly altered political, technological, and environmental circumstances. By emphasizing social relationships, changing identity politics, and issues of colonial power and dispossession contemporary artists have produced landscape art that explores what was absent in the work of their predecessors. Beyond Wilderness expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. Critical writings from both contemporary and historically significant curators, historians, feminists, media theorists, and cultural critics and exactingly reproduced artworks by contemporary and historical artists are brought together in productive dialogue. Beyond Wilderness explains why landscape art in Canada had to be reinvented, and what forms the reinvention took."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780773551442 (paperback)
  0773551441 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Preface : Beyond "Beyond Wilderness": a preface for the second edition / John O'Brian and Peter White. Introduction / John O'Brian and Peter White. Chapter 1: Wilderness myths : Out of the woods / Peter White
  Wild art history / John O'Brian. Chapter 2: Extensions of technology : Introduction
  Landscape manual / Jeff Wall
  Technology and environment / Marshall McLuhan
  La région centrale / Michael Snow
  Plus tard / Michael Snow
  Amendments to continental refusal/refus continental / Greg Curnoe
  View of Victoria Hospital, first series: nos.1-6 / Greg Curnoe
  Siting the banal: the expanded landscapes of the N.E. Thing Company / Nancy Shaw
  Landscape with tree and 3 cirrus clouds / Iain Baxter
  Simulated photo of the moon's "Sea of Tranquility..." filled with water and the N.E. Thing Company's sign placed beside it, August 1969 / N.E. Thing Company
  Conceptual landscape art: Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow / Johanne Sloan
  True patriot love / Joyce Wieland
  Space at the margins: colonial spatiality and critical theory after Innis / Jody Berland
  Illuminated ravine / Rodney Graham. Chapter 3: Post-centennial histories : Introduction
  Introduction to "The Group of Seven" / Dennis Reid
  Preface to "The Bush Garden" / Northrop Frye
  "Night Storm" and "Iceberg" / Paterson Ewen
  The Group of Seven: a national landscape art / Barry Lord
  The Wembley Controversy in Canadian art / Ann Davis
  Artists, patrons, and public: an enquiry into the success of the Group of Seven / Douglas Cole.