Instructor: Gerta Moray
Exploring the creativity and distinctness of the visual arts in Canada
Week 1
The sun never sets on the British Empire – the beginnings of a story
Visualizations by First Peoples, explorers, officers, gentlemen, settlers, Canadians
Week 2
Appreciation or appropriation?
Making ‘home’ on a distant shore; the romance of the wilderness,
WW1, the Group of Seven and West Coast Art. Nudes and prudes and flappers.
The nation completed – new provinces, the CBC, the NFB and the flag
Week 3
Modern Canada: Mid-century into 1960s revolutions
The Automatistes, Painters Eleven, the USA’s ‘annexations’ of the West (Emma Lake) and of the East Coast (NSCAD); Expo 67, the Shadbolts, Indigenous politics
Week 4
A Fair Country? A Mosaic??
Snow and Wieland, Pop and OP, ORegionalism, NE Thing Co., dematerialization and West Coast visions
Week 5
PoMo and PoCo
Moshe Safdie’s NGC, Alanis Obomsawin, General Idea, Paul Wong, Liz Magor, Jin-me Yoon, Landon Mackenzie, Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, Doug Coupland
Week 6
Identities today?
Demographics, First Nations, diasporas: from Susan Point to Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas; from Tak Tanabe and Gu Xiong to Deanna Bowen, Karen Tam, Jagdeep Raina, Rajni Pereira