Tom Thomson: design for a Canadian hero
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Main Author: Murray, Joan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] Dundurn Press 1998
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface; 1. Ties that Bind; 2. Footloose and Fancy Free; 3. Toronto: Opportunity Knocks; 4. Northern Chronicles; 5. 1914: Formation of the Algonquin Park School; 6. Philosophy of Art: 1915-16; 7. Blazing the Trail: 1916; 8. Algonquin Spring: The Diary of 1917; 9. Death and Resurrection: 1917; 10. In Memoriam; 11. Selected Bibliography; Index
This is an intimate biography of an artist who became a legend after his death, but who in his private life stands revealed as a troubled man who was, in many ways, his own victim. Joan Murray's new biography is part detective work, too: she investigates his beliefs, and the origins of his great masterpieces, and provides a convincing description of the possible circumstances of his death. The art of Tom Thomson represents one of the high points of Canadian modernism, which flourished in the first two decades of this century. During his brief career, lasting just five years, Thomson evolved a hi
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (109 pages, [16] pages of plates)
ISBN:1459720458
1550023152
1554883695
9781459720459
9781550023152
9781554883691

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