| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. |
| Contents |
How I got here from there : preface and acknowledgments -- Inventing Tom Thomson -- Biographical stories -- Alteriographic inventions -- Inventive reproductions -- Pentimenti : going back there. |
| Summary |
"Over the past eighty-five years, unanswered questions around the fate of Tom Thomson continue to fascinate Canadians, so much so that his biography (factual and invented) threatens to overshadow his art. In plays poems, biographies, songs, and artworks, writers and artists have imagined who he was. Inventing Tom Thomson is about these inventions. From Blodwen Davies, Henry Beissel, and Arthur Lismer to Joan Murray, Robert Kroestsch, Joyce Wieland, and The Tragically Hip, writers and artists have been compelled to imagine their own Tom Thomsons." "By stressing the fictionality of these representations and by considering Thomson's self-portraits and the many photographs, museum exhibitions, and tourist memorabilia that have entered the popular culture, Sherrill Grace examines the ambiguities of myth-making and Canadian identity. Despite our cultural obsession with the iconic painter, no one, suggests Grace, can claim to recover the real, original Tom Thomson. In the end, all we have are our inventions."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917 -- In literature.
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Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917. |
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Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917 -- Portraits.
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| Genre/Form |
Portraits.
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| Subject |
Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917.
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Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917. |
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Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917 -- Portraits. |
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Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Portraits.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grace, Sherrill, 1944- Inventing Tom Thomson. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004 0773527524 (DLC) 2005415484 (OCoLC)55473471 |
| ISBN |
9780773572126 (electronic book) |
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0773572120 (electronic book) |
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1282862804 |
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9781282862807 |
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0773527524 |
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9780773527522 |
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