Instruction
Choose two landscapes (or images/representations of land) from the twentieth or twenty-first century
by two different artists. Compare and contrast how these artists engage with their subjects; what type
of ideological paradigms are they enacting? What do their (painterly, sculptural, etc.) treatments of the
land suggest about t What are they suggesting about the inhabitants of this land, both human and
non-human? How do these artists engage with or mobilize concepts of “wilderness”, “urbanity,”
“rurality,” and “Canadian identity”? Support your claims with research.
Length: 4 pages, double spaced, minimum of 5 academic sources.