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Picturing the land : narrating territories in Canadian landscape art, 1500-1950
- Title
- Picturing the land : narrating territories in Canadian landscape art, 1500-1950 / Marylin J. McKay.
- Author
- McKay, Marylin Jean, 1944-
- Publication
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N8214.5.C2 M35 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 359 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in art history ; 3
- Uniform Title
- McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 3.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-346) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Canadian landscape art, 1500 to 1950 -- Geographies of the mind : art-maps of French and English Canada, 1500 to 1760 -- Place and displacement : drawings and watercolours in French and English Canada, 1600 to 1830 -- Hopes and promises : resident artists in English Canada, 1830s to 1860s -- Our faith, our language, our institutions : territory and sédentarisme in French Canada, 1830s to 1880s -- Arcadia, Eden, and Nationalism : Farmland in English Canada, 1870 to 1915 -- Promises of survival : territory and sédentarisme in French Canada, 1880s to 1940s -- Wilderness landscapes in English Canada, 1870 to 1913 -- A Canadian school for sure : Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, 1913 to 1930 -- "O God, what have I seen?" : The cult of the Group of Seven, 1920 to 1931 -- Into humanity instead of the woods : the 1930s in French and English Canada -- Where do we go from here? : modernism versus landscape at mid-century -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780773538177
- 0773538178
- LCCN
- 2010526327
- OCLC
- ocn665192556
- 665192556
- SCSB-5610379
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries