Beyond Wilderness The Group of Seven Canadian Identity and Contemporary Art Second Edition by John O’Brian 9780773575585 0773575588

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• ISBN 10: 0773575588
• ISBN 13:9780773575585
• Author:  John O’Brian 

Beyond Wilderness
The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art

Table 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
Index

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