Beyond Wilderness

The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art

John O'Brian, Peter White (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2007
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3244-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Attempts to expand 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 onwards. This book explains why landscape art in Canada had to be reinvented, and what forms the reinvention took.

Autor

John O'Brian teaches art history at the University of British Columbia. His books include Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse, Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, and David Milne and the Modern Tradition of Painting.

Inhalt

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).

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 130 colour illustrations
• Verlagsort: Montreal
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 254 x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 1516 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• ISBN-10: 0-7735-3244-7 / 0773532447
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3244-1 / 9780773532441
• Zustand: Neuware