The Films Of Joyce Wieland

Author : Cinematheque Ontario
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780968296929
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Joyce Wieland written by Cinematheque Ontario and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary who consistently explored new styles and approaches in her art and films, Joyce Wieland grappled with nationalism, feminism, environmentalism and spirituality. The Films of Joyce Wieland brings together essays by Canadian and American theorists about the artists and her work. It includes a never-before-published interview between Wieland and experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the film literature on Wieland. Published by Cinematheque Ontario. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.

Author : Iris Nowell
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 155022476X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce Wieland written by Iris Nowell and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kathryn Elder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780968296943
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Jack Chambers written by Kathryn Elder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay contributors include Stan Brakhage, Fred Camper, Jack Chambers, R. Bruce Elder, Avis Lang, Sarah Milroy, Bart Testa, Peter Tscherkassky, Ross Woodman, and Michael Zyd. Published by Cinematheque Ontario. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana Unviersity Press.

Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071249
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Points of Resistance written by Lauren Rabinovitz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each provided entrée to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. With a new preface and an updated bibliography, Points of Resistance simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network.

Author : Robin Blaetz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340447
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Experimental Cinema written by Robin Blaetz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.

Author : Jim Shedden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773102030
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moments of Perception written by Jim Shedden and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture's stories, its memory. Moments of Perceptionis a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities. Experimental film is political in its very existence, critical of the status quo by definition. In Canada, some of the country's best-known artists took up the moving image as a form of artistic expression, allowing them to explore explicitly political themes. Mike Hoolboom's exposure of the horror of AIDS, Josephine Massarella's concern for the environment, and Joyce Wieland's satiric look at US patriotism are just a few examples of work that contributed to social movementsand provided a means to explore issues of race and gender and LGBTQ2S+ and Indigenous identities. Featuring a major essay on the history of the movement by film scholar Mike Zryd and profiles of key filmmakers by film historian Stephen Broomer and editors Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg, Moments of Perceptionoffers a fresh perspective on the ever-evolving history of Canada's experimental film and moving-image media arts.

Author : Joyce Wieland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce Wieland written by Joyce Wieland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johanne Sloan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442699019
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore' written by Johanne Sloan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema. The film borrows elements from the life of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, who is represented by the character of Tom McLeod. The main character, however, is not Tom, but the fictional creation of Eulalie de Chicoutimi, the married Québécoise woman who loves him. Using Eulalie's perspective, Wieland was able to re-frame Thomson's life and story as a romantic melodrama while infusing it with subversive commentary on gender, nature and nationalism, and ultimately, on the value of art. Here, Wieland specialist Johanne Sloan offers a fascinating new perspective on The Far Shore, making it more accessible by discussing Wieland's utopian fusion of art and politics, the importance of landscape within Canadian culture, and the on-going struggle over the meaning of the natural environment.

Author : Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135175632X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Nation and Gender written by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of countries-including Ireland, Scotland, Britain, Canada, Finland, Russia and Germany-during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors show visual imagery to be a particularly productive focus for analysing the intersections of nation and gender, since the nation and nationalism, as abstract concepts, have to be "embodied" in ways that make them imaginable, especially through the means of art. They explore how allegorical female figures personify the nation across a wide range of visual media, from sculpture to political cartoons and how national architectures may also be gendered. They show how through such representations, art reveals the ethno-cultural bases of nationalisms. Through the study of such images, the essays in this volume cast new light on the significance of gender in the construction of nationalist ideology and the constitution of the nation-state. In tackling the conjunctions of nation, gender and visual representation, the case studies presented in this publication can be seen to provide exciting new perspectives on the study of nations, of gender and the history of art. The range of countries chosen and the variety of images scrutinised create a broad arena for further debate.

Author : Douglas Fetherling
Publisher : Peterborough [Ont.] : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780921149248
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Documents in Canadian Film written by Douglas Fetherling and published by Peterborough [Ont.] : Broadview Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from official papers as well as from scholarly and popular periodicals, Doucments in Canadian Film presents textual eveidence of Canada's rich cinematic heritage and the continuing struggle to enlarge film's place in the society.