This major monograph on the extraordinary career of the Canadian painter is published to accompany the first retrospective exhibition in over 35 years. Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Jack Bush (1909-1977) reinvented himself like very few artists moving from a close association with Canada's Group of Seven landscape painters to an even closer association with the great names of international modernist abstraction. Four experts in their fields outline Bush's ambitious trajectory from his years as an illustrator, through his membership in seminal art associations like the Canadian Group of Painters and Painters Eleven, to his career-changing meeting with the influential American art critic Clement Greenberg. The artist's enduring professional relationship with the art world's most prominent intellectual of the time would ignite his international career and place him alongside Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Frank Stella as one of the great Color Field artists. Jack Bush's singular transformation from provincial artist in the 1940s to celebrated figure on the New York and London gallery scenes in the 1960s and 70s is engagingly told through new photography, previously unpublished diary excerpts and fresh scholarship making this unprecedented survey of his life and work the definitive book on the artist to date. With more than 120 full-color plates, this superb publication features works that boldly burst through as the best in high modern art.

Jack Bush

Arts & Photography

Mayer, Marc

Stanners, Sarah

History & Criticism

Natl Gallery of Canada

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 “burrowed into femininity” and 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 which has cast a virile, woodsy painter as the embodiment of Canadian resilience.
Wieland was an equally heroic artist, as well as a feminist figure who was unapologetic about her sexuality. She established a career as an experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist, working primarily in Toronto but also in New York from 1962 to 1970. In 1971, her exhibition, True Patriot Love, opened at the National Gallery of Canada. It was the Gallery's first solo show of a living Canadian female artist.
Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson &amp; 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. Featuring more than 100 reproductions of Thomson's and Wieland's work, the book mixes sexuality and gender with politics, and nature and nationalism with the formation of a collective identity.

Passion over Reason / la passion avant la raison: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland (English and French Edition)

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

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