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Inventing Tom Thomson
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Author : Sherrill Grace
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2004-11-04
Inventing Tom Thomson written by Sherrill Grace and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-04 with Art categories.
Since his drowning in 1917, Tom Thomson has been recreated by poets, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, biographers, and other artists as a legendary figure synonymous with Canada and its northern identity. Touted as a great artist cut off in his prime, his mysterious death in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, and the controversy about his final resting-place fired the popular imagination and raised him to the status of a national hero. In "Inventing Tom Thomson" Sherrill Grace examines many of the ways in which the figure of Thomson has been imagined by Canadians. Even people who do not know his paintings well will recognize "The Jack Pine" and know his legend through the marketing of Thomson memorabilia on the Web, in museums, and in stores. Grace suggests that the figure we have come to recognize as Tom Thomson is inextricably associated with many of the qualities that we believe characterize Canadian culture - love of the wilderness, northern purity, solitary independence, and a masculine ability to canoe, camp, fish, and rough it in the bush. "Inventing Tom Thomson" is about those artists who have felt compelled to imagine their own Tom Thomsons and about what the man has come to represent to the culture at large - it is about us and how the stories about this exceptional painter have shaped our sense of who we are as a nation.
Inventing Tom Thomson
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Author : Sherrill Grace
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2004
Inventing Tom Thomson written by Sherrill Grace and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
An examination of Canadian identity through our cultural obsession with iconic painter Tom Thomson.
Tom Thomson
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Author : Tom Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Tom Thomson written by Tom Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Thomson, Tom categories.
The Mysterious Death Of Tom Thomson
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Author : George A. Walker
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Mysterious Death Of Tom Thomson written by George A. Walker and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Art categories.
In master engraver George A. Walker’s newest work, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of the iconic Canadian artist are explored through some one hundred and nine wood engravings, creating a work that eulogizes not only the artist himself, but the struggle of the artist’s attempt to express himself while constrained by society, the reality of the moment, and mortality.
Canada And The Idea Of North
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Author : Sherrill E Grace
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002-04-15
Canada And The Idea Of North written by Sherrill E Grace and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-15 with History categories.
Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination. Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - "The North Writes Back" - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars. With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century.
The Many Deaths Of Tom Thomson
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Author : Gregory Klages
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2016-05-14
The Many Deaths Of Tom Thomson written by Gregory Klages and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend? Commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter, The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson offers an authoritative review of the historical record, as well as some theories you might not have thought of in a hundred years. Cultural historian Gregory Klages surveys first-hand testimony and archival records about Thomson’s tragic demise, attempting to sort fact from legend in the death of this Canadian icon.
Tom Thomson
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Author : Tom Thomson
language : en
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Painting Canada
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Author : Ian A. C. Dejardin
language : en
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Release Date : 2012-06-13
Painting Canada written by Ian A. C. Dejardin and has been published by Philip Wilson Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-13 with History categories.
Published to accompany exhibition organized by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum.
Magnetic North
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Author : Martina Weinhart
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Magnetic North written by Martina Weinhart and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Art categories.
This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada's modern cultural identity. The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired to create a new painting vocabulary for the young nation coming into its own cultural identity. They turned away from city life and explored Canada's landscape, painting sublime vistas, monumental rivers, ancient forests around the great lakes, the mighty Rocky Mountains, and the arctic tundra, determined to break away from European stylistic traditions. Together, their paintings imagined a mythical Canada, expansive and rugged, that added to their country's growing sense of national pride. Featuring paintings, sketches, photographs, film stills, and documentary material, this catalog examines the language of Canadian modernism. It also includes essays and interviews that offer contemporary indigenous perspectives on the impact of industry on nature, issues surrounding national identity, and modern Canadian landscape painting. This generously illustrated book critically reviews Canada's modernism in art history.
Tiff
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Author : Sherrill Grace
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Tiff written by Sherrill Grace and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and 80s. During those years, he became a vocal advocate for human rights and the anti-war movement. His writing and interviews reveal a man concerned with the state of the world, a man who believed in the importance of not giving in to despair, despite his constant struggle with depression. Findley believed in the power of imagination and creativity to save us. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of this eminent Canadian writer. Sherrill Grace provides insight into Findley’s life and struggles through an exploration of his private journals and his relationships with family, his beloved partner, Bill Whitehead, and his close friends, including Alec Guinness, William Hutt, and Margaret Laurence. Based on many interviews and exhaustive archival research, this biography explores Findley’s life and work, the issues that consumed him, and his often profound depression over the evils of the twentieth-century. Shining through his darkness are Findley’s generous humour, his unforgettable characters, and his hope for the future. These qualities inform canonic works like The Wars (1977), Famous Last Words (1981), Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), and The Piano Man’s Daughter (1995).