ARTHIST 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tom Thomson, Canadian Art, Eurocentrism
13 Mar 2018
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Changes it meaning and its perspective more diverse. Big difference between settler art one is a representation of relationship to the land. Landscape spiritual with a lot of indigenous art it is connected with the land itself as a spiritual connection itself. Their art comes out of the land. There is the conception that landscape is of the 2 dimensional and indigenous art is seen as primitive. Re-thinking and revisiting the boundaries that we place. This shared landscape its not just canadian landscape geological overlap resources they are repeatedly seen. Landscape is the subject that defines geographical boundaries it is used as the subject. Myth of the group of seven most people don"t really know we need to bring up these issues. They are an icon they made canadian art international representation of what we have coined canadian art. We need to have that context we can"t obliterate that we wouldn"t be changing if we did that.
