Joyce Wieland triumphed over what she called “obscene poverty” to achieve international celebrity as a painter, collagist, quiltmaker, and filmmaker, celebrated as Canada’s most important woman artist next to Emily Carr. Her art portrays strikingly Canadian themes of environmental issues, historical passages, and aboriginal rights in buoyant, satirical images. To make her distinctive, highly personal art, Wieland uses toys, paper cut-outs, wood, glass, and pieces of her panties and dresses just as boldly and felicitously as she uses oils, watercolors, and pencils. Some of her most famous works are quilts, such as Reason Over Passion and Confedspread. She made underground films long before Andy Warhol did, producing a total of 16. Joyce Wieland achieved acclaim through unstinting courage, vivacity, and her off-the-wall humor. She was known for tucking away her secrets in her work. Author Iris Nowell has uncovered some of these secrets through primary sources, such as Joyce’s friends and family, and through her own perspective of having known Joyce for many years. This intimate, rollicking, poignant biography uncovers Joyce Wieland’s life as she lived it, intimately and fully—through the 1950s “Dark Ages of Art” in Toronto, for much of the 1960s in New York’s grungy artist’s loft community and the underground film scene, and back to Toronto for the most productive, stunning years of her life.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-503) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 709/.2
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459308336
- LCCN
- N6549.W53
- LCCN Item number
- N69 2001eb
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- 1 electronic text (519 p., [24] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00204762 (OCoLC)314179412 (CaOOCEL)407740
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 14
- Chapter One 20
- Chapter Two 58
- Chapter Three 126
- Chapter Four 166
- Chapter Five 218
- Chapter Six 296
- Chapter Seven 336
- Chapter Eight 372
- Chapter Nine 448
- Notes 530
- Sources 536
- Bibliography 548
- Index 550
- A 550
- B 550
- C 551
- D 551
- E 552
- F 552
- G 552
- H 553
- I 554
- J 554
- K 554
- L 554
- M 555
- N 555
- O 556
- P 556
- R 556
- S 557
- T 558
- V 558
- W 559
- Y 561
- Z 561
