National Visions National Blindness Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s 1st Edition by Leslie Allan Dawn ISBN 0774812176 9780774812177

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ISBN 10: 0774812176

ISBN 13: 9780774812177

Author: Leslie Allan Dawn 

National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s 1st Edition: 

In the early decades of the twentieth century, Canada sought to define itself as an independent dominion with allegiance to the British Empire. 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. National Visions, National Blindness traces the development of this program and illuminates its conflicted history.

Using newly discovered archival evidence, Leslie Dawn revises common interpretations of several well-known events and rescues others from obscurity. He 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.

National Visions, National Blindness is an elegantly written work offering new and insightful analysis, and will be of great interest to readers and researchers of Canadian art history, First Nations art and history, tourism, cultural politics, museum studies, and ethnographic practices.

 

National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Canadian art in England
Chapter 2: England in Canadian art
Chapter 3: Canadian art in Paris
Chapter 4: Canadian primitives in Paris
Chapter 5: Barbeau and Kihn with the Stoney in Alberta
Chapter 6: Barbeau and Kihn with the Gitxsan in British Columbia
Chapter 7: Giving Gitxsan totem poles a new slant
Chapter 8: Representing and repossessing the Skeena Valley
Chapter 9: West Coast art native and modern
Chapter 10: The downfall of Barbeau
Chapter 11: Revisiting Carr

 

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