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    Joe’s Neighbours
    Joe’s Neighbours
    Joe’s Neighbours
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    Joe’s Neighbours

    By Mendelson Joe

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    Outsider artist Mendelson Joe is a painter, activist, musician, and renowned “self-taughter.” But to the people living in the sparsely populated region west of Algonquin Park, he is also a neighbour. With his latest book, Joe commemorates his neighbours in a series of portraits whose subjects range from Canadian musical icon Hawksley Workman to the man who installed Joe’s woodstove.

    In Joe’s Neighbours, we get a glimpse into the lives of people who have strayed from the urban grid, and in Joe, we meet a “pathological painter” who is engaged with his community. Viewed through Joe’s idiosyncratic lens, rural Canadian life comes alive, and we meet a hub of artists, activists, and offbeat characters who truly embody Joe’s vision of neighbourliness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781770908703
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      Joe’s Neighbours - Mendelson Joe

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      Acknowledgements

      As I pen this, I’ve been painting forty years. I’m a self-taughter in all my media. I’m still learning guitar at age seventy. I am indebted to the Canada Council, which helped my survival especially in 1992 when I was awarded a senior grant to paint my lengthy series LIARS. It seems I never run out of liars to depict. I owe thanks to advocates such as Annie Smith, David Smiley, Irwin Karnick, Patricia Dixon, John Oswald, Colin Linden, Ray Danniels, Ben Mink, Moses Znaimer, Bob Wiseman, Josh Latner, Vera Kruzyk, and my longstanding art dealer Karen Robinson. To quote the lyrics of songwriter Paul Anka, I truly did it my way.

      Preface

      The Neighbour We Should All Hope For

      In the current geopolitical climate in which we live, neighbour has come to mean a plethora of things. Just as revealing as its definitions are the distinctions we make — and the boundaries we draw — in order to demarcate those who are not our neighbours, those we deem unneighbourly in thought, word, and deed. Sometimes we dislike our neighbours, often for petty reasons and small differences. An old habit marked by the bloody stain of history, difference has been used to justify the stealing of land and resources, the repression of women, the obliteration

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