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dc.contributor.advisorThistlethwaite, Mark L.
dc.contributor.authorMcKowen, Nicole Marie,author.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-16T20:55:28Z
dc.date.available2019-05-16T20:55:28Z
dc.date.created2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.identifieraleph-005169642en_US
dc.identifierUMI thesisen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/25372
dc.description.abstractFranklin Carmichael (1890-1945) was a founding member of the first major Canadian art movement, the Group of Seven. He believed in the uniqueness of the Canadian landscape, embracing natural and landscape elements throughout his work as a successful graphic designer and an artist working in a variety of fine art media. Carmichael’s abstracted and expressionistically colored impressions of the wilderness created an intimate viewing experience while maintaining a commitment to the unique character of the Canadian landscape. He and the Group of Seven traveled throughout the Canadian wilderness, painting en plein air and endeavoring to break from European tradition in order to embrace the rise of national sentiment begun by the creation of the Canadian Confederation in 1867 and fueled by World War I. Inspired by the philosophic and spiritual sentiments of the American Transcendentalists in the mid-nineteenth century, Carmichael artistically explored the distinctiveness of the Canadian wilderness as well as the spiritual and Transcendental experience of nature. In the context of this transnational philosophic framework, American Transcendental ideologies complemented the Group’s individual artistic philosophies and spiritualities. Carmichael’s own library included books on Transcendentalism, German Romanticism, Kantian philosophy, and the works of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. This thesis will demonstrate that Franklin Carmichael’s distinctive use of color and space, his portrayal of the relationship between humans and nature, and his subject--the Canadian wilderness evidences his and the Group of Seven’s transnational philosophic affinity for early nineteenth-century Transcendentalism as well as his enthusiastic commitment to artistically solidifying Canada’s national identity.en_US
dc.format.extent1 online resource (vii, 75 pages) :en_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Onlineen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTCU Master Thesisen_US
dc.titleTranscendental nature and Canadian national identity: Franklin Carmichaels representation of the Canadian landscapeen_US
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etd.degree.levelMaster
local.collegeCollege of Fine Arts
local.departmentArt
local.academicunitDepartment of Art History
dc.type.genreThesis
local.subjectareaArt
etd.degree.nameMaster of Arts


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