LEADER 03597nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910780514203321 005 20231206203534.0 010 $a1-282-74104-7 010 $a9786612741043 010 $a0-7748-5508-8 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000528 035 $a(OCoLC)243575753 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10298731 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000377240 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11277898 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377240 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10337800 035 $a(PQKB)11532309 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000644159 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12264578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644159 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10686226 035 $a(PQKB)21002296 035 $a(CaPaEBR)406907 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00208512 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412579 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10298731 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL274104 035 $a(OCoLC)923447612 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/nwjvsh 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/406907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412579 035 $a(DE-B1597)661950 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774855082 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251849 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000528 100 $a20061010d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNational visions, national blindness$b[electronic resource] $eCanadian art and identities in the 1920s /$fLeslie Dawn 210 $aVancouver $cUBC Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (457 p.) 300 $aLimited edition of 500 copies. 311 $a0-7748-1218-4 311 $a0-7748-1217-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aArt, Canadian$y20th century 606 $aIndians in art 606 $aLandscapes in art 615 0$aArt, Canadian 615 0$aIndians in art. 615 0$aLandscapes in art. 676 $a704.9/49971062 676 $a709.7109/042 700 $aDawn$b Leslie Allan$f1950-$01521197 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780514203321 996 $aNational visions, national blindness$93760150 997 $aUNINA