Passion over Reason / la passion avant la raison: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland

Sarah Stanners

Passion over Reason / la passion avant la raison: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland
Format
Hardback
Publisher
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Country
Published
12 June 2018
Pages
164
ISBN
9781486804801

Passion over Reason / la passion avant la raison: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland

Sarah Stanners

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 Wielandrend hommage a deux artistes revolutionnaires du Canada. Considere cette uvre comme une lettre d'amoura Tom Thomson, et bien au Canada – et aussi comme conversation entre des chefs-d'uvre deThomson etJoyce Wieland, pionniere d'art feministe et contemporain au Canada. On a souvent dit de Wieland qu'elle considerait le Canada comme une femme. Thomson etait donc pour elle le meilleur amant pour son pays bien-aime. Bien que la passion ait toujours fait partie integrante de son art, Wieland favorise le patriotisme par ses explorations de symboles canadiens. Son amour et fascination profond pour Thomson et pour Canada se revele dans la publication True Patriot Love, publie en conjonction avec son exposition du meme titres au Musee des beaux-arts du Canada. La-dedans, Wielanda effectivementsubsumeun recueil de la flore arctique publie par le gouvernement: elle infiltrant avec l'aiguille, les annotations et les photos prises par Tom Thomson. Cette publication a plante les graines pour son film The Far Shore. L'exposition presentera ce film, ainsi que son film experimental Reason Over Passion. En mettant l'accent sur la nationalite, le genre, et la sexualite, La Passion Avant la Raison presente une nouvelle perspective sur ces deux artistes.

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