How Canada stole the idea of Native art : the Group of Seven and images of the Indian in the 1920’s

• Main Author: Dawn, Leslie Allan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Native art > Canada; Indians in art; Totem poles > British Columbia; British Columbia; Canada; Carr; Indian; Pacific; stoney
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12940

This thesis examines the conflicted relationships between the construction of a national culture and identity located in landscape painting and the continuing presence of Native art and identity in Canada in the 1920s. It contends that the first was predicated on the assumed disappearance of the sec...