[ARTH 1130] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (47 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 1130
• Professor: Anna Hudson

Document Summary

Introduction to art history week 1 (jan10 - 17) Race/cultural relations: treatment of indigenous populations in canada, potlatch law, around the time of confederation. Issue of creating a nation-state: picturing the americans (textbook) goes over issue of est. a nation-state, potlatch ceremonies getting a tattoo/inked was common. Image of totem poles made with stone (charles edenshaw artist from british. Group of seven: criticism is that they depicted a land without the indigenous populations of canada. Westward the court of empire takes its way. Group of seven painting: early 20th century, medium: oil paint, a. y. Mountain forms by lawren harris: another member of the group of seven, made in 1926, came from canadian imperial oil collection, sold at the heffel fine art auction house. Jack pine (painting: artist: tom thompson, medium: oil on canvas, be(cid:374)edict a(cid:374)de(cid:396)so(cid:374): (cid:862)(cid:396)e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) ca(cid:373)e (cid:449)ith the (cid:374)e(cid:449)spape(cid:396)s(cid:863), (cid:449)hat people (cid:396)ead. Image of single tree collectively in the newspaper became the beliefs of the people.