Beyond Wilderness: Visual Culture in Canada

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture/Seminar) This lecture/seminar course examines the central role of the wilderness and concepts of landscape in historical and contemporary Canadian art. We explore how notions of wilderness and landscape have been constructed, circulated, gendered, and overturned in art history discourse. Manifestations of the wilderness and place in art are examined through social, economic, political, and cultural factors. Historical and intellectual frameworks might include nationalism, feminisms, colonialism, industrialism, events such as Railway construction, Wembley Exhibition, Oka Resistance, key individuals and groups of artists, social movements, and other key events in Canadian history.