Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America: Writings and Art, Life and Times

by I.S. MacLaren

This is a four-volume set with a slip case. Paul Kane has been called the founding father of Canadian art, and Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America a classic of Canadian literature. Yet his studio canvases are stereotypically generic, and his book is infamous: in word and in image, it depicts vain, vengeful, vicious, violent, and vanishing Indigenous people, disregarding its subjects' lived experiences and providing little of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228017467
• ISBN13: 9780228017462
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 2424 Pages
• Weight: 26.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 9.7" x 12.8"