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National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s by Leslie Dawn fiction in his most powerful and8vo. pp. viii, 446. b&w illustrations. bibliography. index. bds. [Vancouver]: UBC Press, [2006]. ISBN: 9780774812177 2008, Winner Raymond Klibanksy Prize, The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences In the early decades of the twentieth century, Canada sought to define itself as an independent dominion with allegiance to the British Empire. The visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and