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Author |
: Sherrill Grace |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0773527524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780773527522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inventing Tom Thomson by : Sherrill Grace
An examination of Canadian identity through our cultural obsession with iconic painter Tom Thomson.
Author |
: Sherrill Grace |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2004-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773572126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773572120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inventing Tom Thomson by : Sherrill Grace
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.
Author |
: Sherrill Grace |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0773522476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780773522473 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Canada and the Idea of North by : Sherrill Grace
A comprehensive overview of the role of the idea of North in Canadian thought, art, and popular culture.
Author |
: Ian A. C. Dejardin |
Publisher |
: Philip Wilson Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0856676861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780856676864 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Painting Canada by : Ian A. C. Dejardin
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.
Author |
: Martina Weinhart |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783791359946 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3791359940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magnetic North by : Martina Weinhart
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.
Author |
: Tom Wolfe |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 1982-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374239282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374239282 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Purple Decades by : Tom Wolfe
This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Author |
: Rupert Thomson |
Publisher |
: Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2018-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590519141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590519140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Never Anyone But You by : Rupert Thomson
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, PopMatters, and Sydney Morning Herald. The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As “sisters” they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to André Breton, and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler’s occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy. Brilliantly imagined, profoundly thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking, Never Anyone But You infuses life into a forgotten history as only great literature can.
Author |
: David Thomson |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2017-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300231335 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300231334 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Warner Bros by : David Thomson
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers—Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack—arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in all of Hollywood. David Thomson provides fascinating and original interpretations of Warner Brothers pictures from the pioneering talkie The Jazz Singer through black-and-white musicals, gangster movies, and such dramatic romances as Casablanca, East of Eden, and Bonnie and Clyde. He recounts the storied exploits of the studio’s larger-than-life stars, among them Al Jolson, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Doris Day, and Bugs Bunny. The Warner brothers’ cultural impact was so profound, Thomson writes, that their studio became “one of the enterprises that helped us see there might be an American dream out there.”
Author |
: David Thomson |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2008-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307488794 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307488799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nicole Kidman by : David Thomson
From the brilliant film historian and critic David Thomson, a book that reinvents the star biography in a singularly illuminating portrait of Nicole Kidman—and what it means to be a top actress today. At once life story, love letter, and critical analysis, this is not merely a book about who Kidman is but about what she is—in our culture and in our minds, on- and offscreen. Tall, Australian, one of the striking beauties of the world, Nicole Kidman is that rare modern phenomenon—an authentic movie star who is as happy and as creative throwing a seductive gaze from some magazine cover as she is being Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Here is the story of how this actress began her career, has grown through her roles, taken risks, made good choices and bad, and worried about money, aging, and image. Here are the details of an actress’s life: her performances in To Die For, The Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, and Birth, among other films; her high-visibility marriage to Tom Cruise; her intense working relationship with Stanley Kubrick and her collaborations with Anthony Minghella and Baz Luhrmann; her work with Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Renée Zellweger, and John Malkovich; her decisions concerning nudity, endorsements, and publicity. And here are Thomson’s scintillating considerations of what celebrity means in the life of an actress like Kidman; of how the screen becomes both barrier and open sesame for her and for her audience; of what is required today of an actress of Kidman’s stature if she is to remain vital to the industry and to the audiences who made her a prime celebrity. Impassioned, opinionated, dazzlingly original in its approach and ideas, Nicole Kidman is as alluring and as much fun as Nicole Kidman herself, and David Thomson’s most remarkable book yet.
Author |
: Tom Thomson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 20 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1008073315 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tom Thomson by : Tom Thomson