Visual art discourses as rhetoric: exploring the colonial creation of the Canadian Northwest Passage

• Main Author: Anderson, Daryl
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Laurentian University of Sudbury 2015
• Subjects: Canadian landscape; art politics; Northwest Passage; internal colonization; cultural tourism; eco-tourism; Canada; Farley; inuit; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/2567

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 na...