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Passion Over Reason / La Passion Avant La Raison

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Passion. Reason. Opposites attract.

It is no secret that Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) never met. Their art could not be further apart stylistically or methodologically. Thomson was a colourist, armed with brushes and oil paints. Wieland was an activist who drew upon an arsenal of wide-ranging contemporary media and whose work is ground-breaking in the annals of feminist art. Yet, Wieland also celebrated her attraction to Thomson. Passion Over Reason explores Wieland's and Canada's fascination with Thomson and his status as a cult figure of masculine mystique, while re-examining the mythology of his life story. Wieland was an equally heroic artist. She established a career as an experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist, working primarily in Toronto but also in New York.

Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland commemorates the art of these two Canadian-born artists, while at the same time contributing a feminist perspective to the long-held narrative of Thomson. The book mixes sexuality and gender with politics, and nature and nationalism with the formation of a collective identity.

La Passion Avant la Raison: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland rend hommage à deux artistes ré volutionnaires du Canada. Considè re cette oe uvre comme une lettre d' amour à Tom Thomson, et bien au Canada -- et aussi comme conversation entre des chefs-d' oe uvre de Thomson et Joyce Wieland, pionniè re d' art fé ministe et contemporain au Canada. On a souvent dit de Wieland qu' elle considé rait le Canada comme une femme. Thomson é tait donc pour elle le meilleur amant pour son pays bien-aimé . Bien que la passion ait toujours fait partie inté grante de son art, Wieland favorise le patriotisme par ses explorations de symboles canadiens.

Son amour et fascination profond pour Thomson et pour Canada se ré vè le dans la publication True Patriot Love, publié en conjonction avec son exposition du mê me titres au Musé e des beaux-arts du Canada. Là -dedans, Wieland a effectivement subsumé un recueil de la flore arctique publié par le gouvernement: elle infiltrant avec l' aiguille, les annotations et les photos prises par Tom Thomson. Cette publication a planté les graines pour son film The Far Shore. L' exposition pré sentera ce film, ainsi que son film expé rimental Reason Over Passion.

En mettant l' accent sur la nationalité, le genre, et la sexualité, La Passion Avant la Raison pré sente une nouvelle perspective sur ces deux artistes.

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Pub dateJun 12, 2018
ISBN-101486804802
ISBN-139781486804801
LanguageEnglish
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