Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art
Softcover
2007 · Montreal, Quebec
by O'Brian, John and Peter White
Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Softcover. VG (slight wear to edges). Azure & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 390 pp., many color illus.; weighs 3.5 lbs. A collection of essays by various authors who "start where the Group of Seven left off. ... Expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. Critical writings by curators, historians, media theorists, and cultural critics and exactingly reproduced artworks by contemporary and hsitorical artists are brought together in productive dialogue." (back cover). (Inventory #: 142674)