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beyond wilderness This page intentionally left blank Beyond Wilderness Edited by John o’brian & Peter white The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art McGill-Queen’s University Press | Montreal and Kingston Contents © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2007 introduction 59 Greg Curnoe chaPter 3 isbn 978-0-7735-3244-1 3 John O’Brian & Peter White View of Victoria Hospital, First Post-centennial histories Legal deposit third quarter 2007 Series, Nos. 1–6 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec 63 98 Introduction Printed in Singapore chaPter 1 Nancy Shaw wilderness myths Siting the Banal: The Expanded 101 Dennis Reid This book is supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts Millennium Arts Fund and Visual Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Introduction to The Group of Seven and Literary Arts sections, and from the Social Sciences 11 Peter White Company and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Out of the Woods 69 109 Northrop Frye McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the Iain Baxter support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our Preface to The Bush Garden 21 John O’Brian Landscape with Tree and 3 Cirrus publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Wild Art History Clouds 111 Paterson Ewen Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for 69 our publishing activities. Night Storm and Iceberg N.E. Thing Company chaPter 2 Simulated Photo of the Moon’s “Sea 115 Barry Lord extensions of technology of Tranquility” Filled with Water The Group of Seven: library and archives canada cataloguing in and the N.E. Thing Company’s Sign publication A National Landscape Art 40 Introduction Placed Beside It, August 1969 Beyond wilderness : the Group of Seven, Canadian 73 identity, and contemporary art / edited by John O’Brian 123 Ann Davis 42 Jeff Wall Johanne Sloan and Peter White. The Wembley Controversy in Landscape Manual Conceptual Landscape Art: Canadian Art Includes bibliographical references and index. Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow isbn 978-0-7735-3244-1 47 Marshall McLuhan 85 129 Douglas Cole 1. Landscape painting, Canadian--20th century. Technology and Environment Joyce Wieland 2. Canada--In art. 3. Nature in art. i. O’Brian, John Artists, Patrons, and Public: ii. White, Peter True Patriot Love An Enquiry into the Success of 51 Michael Snow 89 nd1352.c3b49 2007 758’.1710904 c2007-902375-4 the Group of Seven La Région Centrale Jody Berland Space at the Margins: 52 Michael Snow Colonial Spatiality and Critical Set in Dolly by the Underware type foundry, nl (body) Plus Tard Theory after Innis and Mustardo (headings) by the Fountain type foundry, 93 Sweden. 57 Greg Curnoe Rodney Graham book design & typesetting Amendments to Continental Illuminated Ravine Zab Design & Typography, Winnipeg Refusal/Refus Continental cover image Michael Snow, Plus Tard, 1977 (detail) Contents © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2007 introduction 59 Greg Curnoe chaPter 3 isbn 978-0-7735-3244-1 3 John O’Brian & Peter White View of Victoria Hospital, First Post-centennial histories Legal deposit third quarter 2007 Series, Nos. 1–6 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec 63 98 Introduction Printed in Singapore chaPter 1 Nancy Shaw wilderness myths Siting the Banal: The Expanded 101 Dennis Reid This book is supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts Millennium Arts Fund and Visual Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Introduction to The Group of Seven and Literary Arts sections, and from the Social Sciences 11 Peter White Company and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Out of the Woods 69 109 Northrop Frye McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the Iain Baxter support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our Preface to The Bush Garden 21 John O’Brian Landscape with Tree and 3 Cirrus publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Wild Art History Clouds 111 Paterson Ewen Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for 69 our publishing activities. Night Storm and Iceberg N.E. Thing Company chaPter 2 Simulated Photo of the Moon’s “Sea 115 Barry Lord extensions of technology of Tranquility” Filled with Water The Group of Seven: library and archives canada cataloguing in and the N.E. Thing Company’s Sign publication A National Landscape Art 40 Introduction Placed Beside It, August 1969 Beyond wilderness : the Group of Seven, Canadian 73 identity, and contemporary art / edited by John O’Brian 123 Ann Davis 42 Jeff Wall Johanne Sloan and Peter White. The Wembley Controversy in Landscape Manual Conceptual Landscape Art: Canadian Art Includes bibliographical references and index. Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow isbn 978-0-7735-3244-1 47 Marshall McLuhan 85 129 Douglas Cole 1. Landscape painting, Canadian--20th century. Technology and Environment Joyce Wieland 2. Canada--In art. 3. Nature in art. i. O’Brian, John Artists, Patrons, and Public: ii. White, Peter True Patriot Love An Enquiry into the Success of 51 Michael Snow 89 nd1352.c3b49 2007 758’.1710904 c2007-902375-4 the Group of Seven La Région Centrale Jody Berland Space at the Margins: 52 Michael Snow Colonial Spatiality and Critical Set in Dolly by the Underware type foundry, nl (body) Plus Tard Theory after Innis and Mustardo (headings) by the Fountain type foundry, 93 Sweden. 57 Greg Curnoe Rodney Graham book design & typesetting Amendments to Continental Illuminated Ravine Zab Design & Typography, Winnipeg Refusal/Refus Continental cover image Michael Snow, Plus Tard, 1977 (detail) chaPter 4 chaPter 5 Emily Carr 247 Peter Doig chaPter 7 335 Zacharias Kunuk northern develoPment contest and controversy 217 Scott Watson Canoe-Lake and a Figure in the exPression of a Video and Location Stills Disfigured Nature: The Origins of Mountain Landscape difference 136 Introduction 172 Introduction the Modern Canadian Landscape 338 Dot Tuer 251 Roald Nasgaard 296 Introduction Performing Memory: The Art National Gallery of Canada 138 General Idea 219 Marcia Crosby The Mystic North of Storytelling in the Work of Pharm@cology 175 Anne Whitelaw Construction of the Imaginary 299 Edward Poitras Rebecca Belmore “Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Indian 254 Liz Magor Offensive/Defensive 141 Paul H. Walton Spruce”: Art Museums and Cabin in the Snow 341 Rebecca Belmore The Group of Seven and Northern the Production of a Canadian 223 Robert Fulford 303 Esther Trépanier Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Development Aesthetic The Trouble with Emily 258 Robert Stacey The Expression of a Difference: Speaking to their Mother The Myth – and Truth – of the The Milieu of Quebec Art and the 145 Rosemary Donegan 181 Joyce Zemans 229 Gerta Moray True North Group of Seven 344 Loretta Todd Modernism and The Industrial Establishing the Canon: Emily Carr and the Traffic in Yuxweluptun: A Philosophy Imagination: Copper Cliff and Nationhood, Identity, and Native Images 264 Michel Saulnier 307 Johanne Lamoureux of History the Sudbury Basin the National Gallery’s First Le Groupe des Sept Interview with John O’Brian and Reproduction Programme of Peter White 348 Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun 153 Carol Payne Canadian Art chaPter 6 269 Grant Arnold Scorched Earth, Clear-Cut Logging “How Shall We Use These Gifts?” what is canadian in The Terminal City and the Rhetoric 313 David Thauberger on Native Sovereign Lands, Shaman Imaging the Land in the National 187 Lynda Jessup canadian landscaPe? of Utopia Slough and Lake Reflecting Mountains Coming to Fix and Red Man Watching Film Board of Canada’s Still Art for a Nation? White Man Trying to Fix Hole in Sky Photography Division 236 Introduction 272 Stan Douglas 317 Robert Linsley 193 Leslie Dawn Nu.tka. Painting and the Social History of 352 Mike MacDonald 161 Mel Watkins The Britishness of Canadian Art 239 Cole Harris British Columbia Butterfly Garden Reflections on Being Born in a The Myth of the Land in Canadian 277 Scott Watson The McMichael Canadian Art Group of Seven Canvas That Is Nationalism Race, Wilderness, Territory, and 321 Marlene Creates Collection Magically Transformed into a the Origins of Modern Canadian Entering and Leaving St. John’s, Sensuous Eleanor Bond Painting 202 Joyce Zemans 241 Robert Fones Landscape Painting Newfoundland, 1995 355 Notes What Would the Group of Seven Say? Natural Range of Bur Oak, Natural 166 Eleanor Bond Range of Canada Plum, Natural 283 Robert Houle 324 Shawna Dempsey & 371 Bibliography Later, Some Industrial Refugees from 206 Christopher Varley Range of Shagbark Hickory, Natural Premises for Self-Rule Lorri Millan Communal Settlements in a Logged Letter to the Editor Range of White Oak Lesbian National Parks and Services 375 Contributors Valley in B.C. and The Women’s Park 286 Reesa Greenberg at Fish Lake Provides Hostels, Hotels 207 Gu Xiong and Andrew Hunter 245 Benedict Anderson Defining Canada 327 Christos Dikeakos 379 Contemporary Art Pages and Housing Ding Ho/Group of 7 Staging Antimodernism in the Age ch’e chée lmun and Wanuskewin of High Capitalist Nationalism 290 Jin-me Yoon Park, Mike Vitkowski’s Farm, 380 Acknowledgments 211 Richard William Hill A Group of Sixty-Seven Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Graveyard and Giftshop: Fighting 381 Image Credits over the McMichael Canadian Art 331 Jonathan Bordo Collection Jack Pine: Wilderness Sublime 383 Index or the Erasure of the Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape chaPter 4 chaPter 5 Emily Carr 247 Peter Doig chaPter 7 335 Zacharias Kunuk northern develoPment contest and controversy 217 Scott Watson Canoe-Lake and a Figure in the exPression of a Video and Location Stills Disfigured Nature: The Origins of Mountain Landscape difference 136 Introduction 172 Introduction the Modern Canadian Landscape 338 Dot Tuer 251 Roald Nasgaard 296 Introduction Performing Memory: The Art National Gallery of Canada 138 General Idea 219 Marcia Crosby The Mystic North of Storytelling in the Work of Pharm@cology 175 Anne Whitelaw Construction of the Imaginary 299 Edward Poitras Rebecca Belmore “Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Indian 254 Liz Magor Offensive/Defensive 141 Paul H. Walton Spruce”: Art Museums and Cabin in the Snow 341 Rebecca Belmore The Group of Seven and Northern the Production of a Canadian 223 Robert Fulford 303 Esther Trépanier Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Development Aesthetic The Trouble with Emily 258 Robert Stacey The Expression of a Difference: Speaking to their Mother The Myth – and Truth – of the The Milieu of Quebec Art and the 145 Rosemary Donegan 181 Joyce Zemans 229 Gerta Moray True North Group of Seven 344 Loretta Todd Modernism and The Industrial Establishing the Canon: Emily Carr and the Traffic in Yuxweluptun: A Philosophy Imagination: Copper Cliff and Nationhood, Identity, and Native Images 264 Michel Saulnier 307 Johanne Lamoureux of History the Sudbury Basin the National Gallery’s First Le Groupe des Sept Interview with John O’Brian and Reproduction Programme of Peter White 348 Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun 153 Carol Payne Canadian Art chaPter 6 269 Grant Arnold Scorched Earth, Clear-Cut Logging “How Shall We Use These Gifts?” what is canadian in The Terminal City and the Rhetoric 313 David Thauberger on Native Sovereign Lands, Shaman Imaging the Land in the National 187 Lynda Jessup canadian landscaPe? of Utopia Slough and Lake Reflecting Mountains Coming to Fix and Red Man Watching Film Board of Canada’s Still Art for a Nation? White Man Trying to Fix Hole in Sky Photography Division 236 Introduction 272 Stan Douglas 317 Robert Linsley 193 Leslie Dawn Nu.tka. Painting and the Social History of 352 Mike MacDonald 161 Mel Watkins The Britishness of Canadian Art 239 Cole Harris British Columbia Butterfly Garden Reflections on Being Born in a The Myth of the Land in Canadian 277 Scott Watson The McMichael Canadian Art Group of Seven Canvas That Is Nationalism Race, Wilderness, Territory, and 321 Marlene Creates Collection Magically Transformed into a the Origins of Modern Canadian Entering and Leaving St. John’s, Sensuous Eleanor Bond Painting 202 Joyce Zemans 241 Robert Fones Landscape Painting Newfoundland, 1995 355 Notes What Would the Group of Seven Say? Natural Range of Bur Oak, Natural 166 Eleanor Bond Range of Canada Plum, Natural 283 Robert Houle 324 Shawna Dempsey & 371 Bibliography Later, Some Industrial Refugees from 206 Christopher Varley Range of Shagbark Hickory, Natural Premises for Self-Rule Lorri Millan Communal Settlements in a Logged Letter to the Editor Range of White Oak Lesbian National Parks and Services 375 Contributors Valley in B.C. and The Women’s Park 286 Reesa Greenberg at Fish Lake Provides Hostels, Hotels 207 Gu Xiong and Andrew Hunter 245 Benedict Anderson Defining Canada 327 Christos Dikeakos 379 Contemporary Art Pages and Housing Ding Ho/Group of 7 Staging Antimodernism in the Age ch’e chée lmun and Wanuskewin of High Capitalist Nationalism 290 Jin-me Yoon Park, Mike Vitkowski’s Farm, 380 Acknowledgments 211 Richard William Hill A Group of Sixty-Seven Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Graveyard and Giftshop: Fighting 381 Image Credits over the McMichael Canadian Art 331 Jonathan Bordo Collection Jack Pine: Wilderness Sublime 383 Index or the Erasure of the Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape This page intentionally left blank beyond wilderness
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