Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and ReproductionsMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004 - 234 pagina's 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
INVENTING TOM THOMSON | 3 |
Thomas as Legend Myth and Symbol | 8 |
THE BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES | 14 |
The Art of Biography | 63 |
ALTERIOGRAPHIC INVENTIONS | 85 |
Thomson as Poetic Trope | 87 |
Thomas as Fictional Character | 103 |
Performing Tom Thomson | 119 |
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Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional ... Sherrill Grace Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
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A.Y. Jackson Addison Ahmek Algonquin Park Arthur Lismer artist autobiography Betts biography Blodwen Davies body bush cairn called Canada Canadian art Canoe Lake canoeist character colour Dick dream drowned Eulalie exhibition fiction film fishing Fraser friends grave Group of Seven Harold Town homosocial Hunter Huntsville Idea of North Illus imagine Inventing Tom Thomson Jack Pine Joan Murray Joyce Wieland July Kipling Kiyooka Kroetsch landscape Lawren Harris letters Light That Failed Little Little's living Lowrie MacCallum MacDonald MacGregor Maisie Martin Blecher masculine McMichael Memorial Art Gallery modernist Mowat Lodge murder mystery myth narrative National nature northern Ontario Owen Sound paddle painter painting pentimenti photograph of Thomson play poem portrait reproduced scene Self-Portrait shore sketch symbol Tea Lake Dam tells Thom Thomson Memorial Art Thomson story Thomson's death tion Tom Thomson Tom's Toronto Torpenhow trees trope visual Wild Mary wilderness Winnie Winnifred Trainor woman woodsman