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- Title
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- Description
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SC0369-WJO1-PR-1
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Newnham - Building B - Level 2 - Hallway towards Library
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O Canada
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1970
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Print
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Lithograph on cloth
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57.2 x 76.2 cm
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8/10
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We might credit the fact that O Canada is printed on cloth to Joyce Wieland’s passion for wedding art and craft. In Pop Art fashion, pressing lips greased with lipstick to the litho stone, Wieland mouthed the 68 syllables to our national anthem. She then printed an edition on paper and a smaller edition on cloth.
Wieland often defied artistic conventions, incorporating many traditional women's materials and techniques, such as quilting, into her work. Through the development of her ideas and practice, she helped to force a re-evaluation of traditional women’s art and craft. Both a patriot and a promoter of art traditionally thought to be female, Wieland’s O Canada is imbued with passion, both nationalistic and sexual. Although a precursor of feminist art she herself distained the label. "Feminism is something I take for granted; I am not a theoretician." Her Toronto dealer, Av Isaacs, said of her “She was the first artist I had met whose work was done solely from a woman’s point of view. She was ahead of her time in that sense and radically important.” (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased from Isaacs Gallery.
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Signed lower right corner, Joyce Wieland 1970
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