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ARTH 370/BL (Winter 2025): STUDIES IN CANADIAN ART

This course takes a critical look at how land and nature are represented in historical Canadian art and design traditions with a special interest in how the British settler population wielded its visual and material cultures to naturalize settler colonialism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to revisiting the landscape views that have long defined Canada’s painting and photography traditions, this course explores how land, animals, and plants have been otherwise represented in historical Canadian and Indigenous visual and material cultures. In assessing how the transplantation of British art and design traditions to North America impacted the environmental and cultural sustainability of Indigenous life, our weekly course materials and discussions will engage with the work of historical and contemporary Indigenous scholars, artists, and other such cultural producers. Informed by environmental and settler-colonial art histories, this course stresses the ecological and cultural significance of materials and form.