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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Jack Shadbolt
    sub title: in his words
  name:
    name part: Shadbolt, Jack
    name part: 1909-1998
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Mertens, Susan M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: autobiographies (literary genre)
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 200 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm
  abstract: "This is the memoir West Coast modernist Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) never quite got around to writing. Using poems and excerpts from his personal journals, letters, talks, and writings, Vancouver-based critic Susan Mertens has created a compelling collage of the artist, a bildungsroman of an extraordinarily driven and divided personality navigating the rapidly changing social and artistic challenges of the 20th century. Inspired initially by Emily Carr, Shadbolt put the West Coast's dramatic landscapes and elements of both Indigenous and Western culture through lenses of abstraction, cubism, and surrealism. The result was a highly original form of Modernism, outward looking in its international influences yet absolutely of this place, as comfortable at the Venice Biennale as in solo shows at Canada's major public galleries. Through writing as colourful as his giant butterflies, as psychologically insightful as his bird poems, Jack Shadbolt: In His Words reveals the ego and insecurity that plagued Shadbolt, a tightly wound combination that condemned him to a teeter-totter of near-manic productive highs and soul-deadening lows when he feared he would never again paint. It is the very human story of how the immigrant son of a sign painter worked tirelessly to turn "the sow's ear of me ... into the silk purse of an artist" so that, one day, a viewer might be stopped in their tracks when, in his words, "the poetry breaks through" and a mute but magical act of communication occurs. Featuring black-and-white photographs and sixteen pages of full-colour selections of his paintings, this is the story of an artist obsessed from his late teens to his death bed with the question of how he might make great art, an artist who, at heart, wanted what we all desire--to belong and to be understood."--
  note: introduced and edited by Susan M. Mertens.
  note: Co-published by Audain Art Museum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-bc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shadbolt, Jack
      name part: 1909-1998
  subject:
    topic: Painters
    geographic: British Columbia
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Peintres
    geographic: Colombie-Britannique
    genre: Biographies
  classification: ND249.S48 A2 2024
  classification: 759.11
  classification: cci1icc
  identifier: 9781773272559
  identifier: 1773272551
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240114
    record change date: 20250318222206.3
    record identifier: in00005611895
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng