Tag: Jonas, Joan

Joan Jonas on Cape Breton, Her Island of Wonder and Inspiration

The view never ends from the weathered porch of Joan Jonas’s summer home on a hill in Cape Breton Island, on the tip of Nova Scotia. Just beyond a thicket of treetops, the Gulf of St. Lawrence sways in a gradient of blues, a cobalt horizon line hovering where sea meets sky. For decades, the […]

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Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

I’m not a humanist, I’m a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man as the crown of creation, with all other animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward — has never made sense. Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at […]

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