Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art Volume 7

by Peter White

"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In Beyond Wilderness contributors pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773551441
• ISBN13: 9780773551442
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 9.9"