In the early decades of the twentieth century, Canada sought to define itself as an independent dominion with allegiance to the British Empire. The visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven's landscapes became part of a larger program to unify the nation and assert its uniqueness. National Visions, National Blindness traces the development of this program and illuminates its conflicted history.
Using newly discovered archival evidence, Leslie Dawn revises common interpretations of several well-known events and...
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Canada sought to define itself as an independent dominion with allegiance to the British Empire. The...
