Picturing the Land : Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950
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| Title: | Picturing the Land : Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950 |
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| Description: | Emphasizing the ways in which social, economic, and political conditions determine representation, Marylin McKay moves beyond canonical images and traditional nationalistic interpretations by analyzing Canadian landscape art in relation to different concepts of territory. Taking an expansive and inclusive perspective on Canadian landscape art, McKay depicts this tradition in all its diversity and draws it into the larger body of Western landscape art, broadening the horizon of future study, appreciation, and criticism. Richly illustrated and filled with sophisticated and innovative commentary, Picturing the Land provides new and distinct histories of the landscape art of French and English Canada. |
| Authors: | Marylin J. McKay |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Art and society--Canada--History, Art--Canada--History, Landscapes in art--History, Art, Canadian |
| Categories: | ART / Canadian |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Emphasizing the ways in which social, economic, and political conditions determine representation, Marylin McKay moves beyond canonical images and traditional nationalistic interpretations by analyzing Canadian landscape art in relation to different concepts of territory. Taking an expansive and inclusive perspective on Canadian landscape art, McKay depicts this tradition in all its diversity and draws it into the larger body of Western landscape art, broadening the horizon of future study, appreciation, and criticism. Richly illustrated and filled with sophisticated and innovative commentary, Picturing the Land provides new and distinct histories of the landscape art of French and English Canada. |
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| ISBN: | 9780773538177 9780773590960 |
