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Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art (Arts Insights Series) by White, Peter; O'Brian, John is a art available to read on EtoBox.
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"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 this book, John O'Brian and Peter White pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that since the 1960s a growing body of both
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- Author
- White, Peter; O'Brian, John
- Publisher
- ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773575585
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Nature, History & Criticism
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (13 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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