03594nam 2200781Ia 450 991081657420332120200520144314.01-282-74104-797866127410430-7748-5508-8(CKB)2430000000000528(OCoLC)243575753(CaPaEBR)ebrary10298731(SSID)ssj0000377240(PQKBManifestationID)11277898(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377240(PQKBWorkID)10337800(PQKB)11532309(SSID)ssj0000644159(PQKBManifestationID)12264578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644159(PQKBWorkID)10686226(PQKB)21002296(CaPaEBR)406907(CaBNvSL)slc00208512(Au-PeEL)EBL3412579(CaPaEBR)ebr10298731(CaONFJC)MIL274104(OCoLC)923447612(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/nwjvsh(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/406907(MiAaPQ)EBC3412579(DE-B1597)661950(DE-B1597)9780774855082(MiAaPQ)EBC3251849(EXLCZ)99243000000000052820061010d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNational visions, national blindness Canadian art and identities in the 1920s /Leslie Dawn1st ed.Vancouver UBC Pressc20061 online resource (457 p.)Limited edition of 500 copies.0-7748-1218-4 0-7748-1217-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.AcknowledgmentsIn 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.Art, Canadian20th centuryIndians in artLandscapes in artArt, CanadianIndians in art.Landscapes in art.704.9/49971062709.7109/042Dawn Leslie Allan1950-1598506MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816574203321National visions, national blindness3920784UNINA