Beyond Wilderness The Group of Seven Canadian Identity and Contemporary Art 1st Edition by John O’Brian, Peter White ISBN 0773532447 978-0773532441

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Author:  John O’Brian, Peter White

“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 this book, 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. Contributors include Benedict Anderson (Cornell), Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery). Rebecca Belmore, Jody Berland (York), Eleanor Bond (Concordia), Jonathan Bordo (Trent), Douglas Cole, Marlene Creates, Marcia Crosby (Malaspina), Greg Curnoe, Ann Davis (Nickle Arts Museum), Leslie Dawn (Lethbridge), Shawna Dempsey, Christos Dikeakos, Peter Doig, Rosemary Donegan (OCAD), Stan Douglas, Paterson Ewen, Robert Fones, Northrop Frye, Robert Fulford, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Reesa Greenberg, Gu Xiong (British Columbia), Cole Harris (British Columbia), Richard William Hill (Middlesex), Robert Houle, Andrew Hunter (Waterloo), Lynda Jessup (Queen’s), Zacharias Kunuk (Igloolik Isuma Productions), Johanne Lamoureux (Montreal), Robert Linsley (Waterloo), Barry Lord (Lord Cultural Resources), Marshall McLuhan, Mike MacDonald, Liz Magor (ECIAD), Lorri Millan, Gerta Moray (Guelph), Roald Nasgaard (Florida State), N.E. Thing Company, Carol Payne (Carleton), Edward Poitras, Dennis Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario), Michel Saulnier, Nancy Shaw (Simon Fraser), Johanne Sloan (Concordia), Michael Snow, Robert Stacey, David Thauberger, Loretta Todd, Esther Trepanier (Quebec), Dot Tuer (OCAD), Christopher Varley, Jeff Wall, Paul H. Walton (McMaster), Mel Watkins (Toronto), Scott Watson (British Columbia), Anne Whitelaw (Alberta), Joyce Wieland, Jin-me Yoon (Simon Fraser), Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Joyce Zemans (York).

Beyond Wilderness The Group of Seven Canadian Identity and Contemporary Art 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 WILDERNESS MYTHS

Out of the Woods

Wild Art History

CHAPTER 2 EXTENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY

Introduction

Landscape Manual

Technology and Environment

La Région Centrale

Plus Tard

Amendments to Continental Refusal/Refus Continental

View of Victoria Hospital, First Series, Nos. 1–6

Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Company

Landscape with Tree and 3 Cirrus Clouds

Simulated Photo of the Moon’s “Sea of Tranquility” Filled with Water and the N.E. Thing Compan

Conceptual Landscape Art: Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow

True Patriot Love

Space at the Margins: Colonial Spatiality and Critical Theory after Innis

Illuminated Ravine

CHAPTER 3 POST-CENTENNIAL HISTORIES

Introduction

Introduction to The Group of Seven

Preface to The Bush Garden

Night Storm and Iceberg

The Group of Seven: A National Landscape Art

The Wembley Controversy in Canadian Art

Artists, Patrons, and Public: An Enquiry into the Success of the Group of Seven

CHAPTER 4 NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

Pharm@cology

The Group of Seven and Northern Development

Modernism and The Industrial Imagination: Copper Cliff and the Sudbury Basin

“How Shall We Use These Gifts?” Imaging the Land in the National Film Board of Canada’s Still

Reflections on Being Born in a Group of Seven Canvas That Is Magically Transformed into a Sensuous E

Later, Some Industrial Refugees from Communal Settlements in a Logged Valley in B.C. and The Women

CHAPTER 5 CONTEST AND CONTROVERSY

Introduction

National Gallery of Canada

“Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce”: Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic

Establishing the Canon: Nationhood, Identity, and the National Gallery’s First Reproduction Progra

Art for a Nation?

The Britishness of Canadian Art

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

What Would the Group of Seven Say?

Letter to the Editor

Ding Ho/Group of 7

Graveyard and Giftshop: Fighting over the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Emily Carr

Disfigured Nature: The Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape

Construction of the Imaginary Indian

The Trouble with Emily

Emily Carr and the Traffic in Native Images

CHAPTER 6 WHAT IS CANADIAN IN CANADIAN LANDSCAPE?

Introduction

The Myth of the Land in Canadian Nationalism

Natural Range of Bur Oak, Natural Range of Canada Plum, Natural Range of Shagbark Hickory, Natural R

Staging Antimodernism in the Age of High Capitalist Nationalism

Canoe-Lake and a Figure in Mountain Landscape

The Mystic North

Cabin in the Snow

The Myth – and Truth – of the True North

Le Groupe des Sept

The Terminal City and the Rhetoric of Utopia

Nu·tka·

Race, Wilderness, Territory, and the Origins of Modern Canadian Landscape Painting

Premises for Self-Rule

Defining Canada

A Group of Sixty-Seven

CHAPTER 7 THE EXPRESSION OF A DIFFERENCE

Introduction

Offensive/Defensive

The Expression of a Difference: The Milieu of Quebec Art and the Group of Seven

Interview with John O’Brian and Peter White

Slough and Lake Reflecting Mountains

Painting and the Social History of British Columbia

Entering and Leaving St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1995

Lesbian National Parks and Services

ch’e chée lmun and Wanuskewin Park, Mike Vitkowski’s Farm, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Jack Pine: Wilderness Sublime or the Erasure of the Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape

Video and Location Stills

Performing Memory: The Art of Storytelling in the Work of Rebecca Belmore

Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to their Mother

Yuxweluptun: A Philosophy of History

Scorched Earth, Clear-Cut Logging on Native Sovereign Lands, Shaman Coming to Fix and Red Man Watchi

Butterfly Garden

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Contemporary Art Pages

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

 
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