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The Canadian landscape as Art. Stanley Thompson, Golf Course Architecture, the Group of Seven, and the Aesthetic of Canadian Nationalism

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Golf Courses symbolise more than the relationship between player and landscape. In Canada, where the landscape historically is tied to national identity, golf courses can take on nationalist meanings as well. This paper investigates the relationship between landscape and nationalism through Canadian golf architect legend Stanley Thompson’s golf courses. In particular, Thompson’s creation of the Heroic School of Golf Architecture represents a Canadian adaptation to the Strategic School of Golf Architecture. Thompson allowed the landscape, in particular the dramatic landscape, to dictate the courses and in doing so imbued popular Canadian nationalist ideas in these courses. Using his contemporaries, the famous Group of Seven landscape artists, as comparison shows how different types of artists used the landscape to express Canadian national ideas.

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  • Jordan Goldstein, 2020. "The Canadian landscape as Art. Stanley Thompson, Golf Course Architecture, the Group of Seven, and the Aesthetic of Canadian Nationalism," Landscape History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(2), pages 105-125, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rlshxx:v:41:y:2020:i:2:p:105-125
    DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2020.1835189
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