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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Canadian landscape"”.
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Lucius R. O'Brien : a Victorian in North America : American influence on his early work, 1873-1880
Lucius R. O'Brien was a well-known Canadian landscape painter in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the promotion of art in Ontario, he served as vice-president of the Ontario Society of Artists from 1874 until 1880, at which time, in recognition of his leading role in Canadian …
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Visual art discourses as rhetoric: exploring the colonial creation of the Canadian Northwest Passage
In the 1920s Canadian colonialism became domesticated; a political and economic change was publically presented and mystified through the creation of a professedly nationalist landscape mythology. In the words of A.Y. Jackson, Canada needed “a new, modern landscape art tradition, for a new modern …
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A Generic Approach To Confederation Romanticism
… of the inapplicability of Romanticism to the Canadian landscape should be reconsidered.
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Rails and ties : a comparison of late nineteenth-century images of western railways in Canada and the United States
… (c. 1869 to 1900) images of railways in the Canadian and American Western landscapes, focusing on differences in how transcontinental railways were depicted in the mountainous Western terrain of each country. It pits Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" about colonization of the …
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There's No Place Like (Rural) Home: Why People Choose Rural Despite Decline
Rural communities play a major role in the Canadian landscape and identity. As such it is important to explore the role of rural Canadian communities and why people are so drawn to them. The purpose of this research is to explore why people are so attached to rural communities across Canada despite …