War Art in Canada: A Critical History delves deep into the past to represent ‘Canadian war art in its wholeness’
Certain paintings probably come to mind when you think of Canadian war art. Benjamin West’s 1770 oil on canvas,. Works from the First World War done by future Group of Seven members: A.Y. Jackson’sIf anyone has a grasp on the history of Canadian war art, it is Laura Brandon, author of. Brandon was the historian, art and war, at the Canadian War Museum from 1992 until 2015.
“Art, like history, tends to favour the victorious, so, until recently, the bulk of Canadian war art has reflected Western traditions and genres at the expense of Indigenous expressions,” Brandon writes in the preface. “This book attempts to redress the balance.”painting – the narrative begins thousands of years before contact.
Early Indigenous artifacts that were related to conflict – weapons or clothing, for instance – have often not been studied as fine art, but ethnographically. And they have not featured significantly in Canada’s military art history. This publication changes that. One of its earliest pieces is a 17th-century calumet, or ceremonial pipe. Smoking the calumet cemented military alliances and peace treaties.
Luben Boykov and Richard Brixel, Meeting of Two Worlds, unveiled July 5, 2002, L’Anse aux Meadows, N.L.One of the featured pieces with the longest history isby Mesaquab . While the work was made in 1904, it depicts a battle scene originally painted on a rock at Ontario’s Lake Couchiching about 200 years earlier. Mesaquab, who was Ojibway, used porcupine quills and sweetgrass to reproduce the scene from memory onto the lid of a birchbark box.
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