The Other Side of the Picture

MacInnes, Teresa, (film director.). Kovanic, Gillian Darling, (film producer.). McCrea, Graydon, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Canadian artist Doris McCarthy surveys the landscape of Lake Huron, made famous by her teacher, Arthur Lismer, and other Group of Seven painters. "When I was growing up, I heard, and I actually believed, that there had never been any great women artists. This was the wisdom of the day." At the remounting of The Dinner Party, artist Judy Chicago remarks on her success as a woman artist. "You don't get preserved, you get buried." Two different artists from two generations, but how much have things changed? Filmmaker Teresa MacInnes tackles the debate: Are there no great women artists? The statistics are revealing. At Washington's National Gallery only 1 in every 30 paintings is by a woman. In Canada, women account for a mere 8 percent of the National Gallery's collection. The Other Side of the Picture takes us into the homes and studios of artists such as Mary Pratt, Joyce Weiland, Jane Ash Poitras and Landon Mackenzie, who address the question of inequality in the art world. Traversing the last two centuries of women's art history, this film offers provocative comment on why we are still missing the "other side of the picture".

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (52 min., 58 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2015.
Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

General Note:	Agency - English program:.Pacific Centre. Agency:.Produced by NFB with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Available to subscribers only.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Teresa MacInnes ; producer, Gillian Darling Kovanic ; executive producer, Graydon McCrea ; script, Andrew Gardner ; cinematography, Kent Nason ; sound, John Martin, Bruce Perlman, Eric Davies ; editing, Janice Brown ; music, Peter Allen.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Gillian Barber ; participation, Doris McCarthy, Landon Mackenzie, Susan Fisher Sterling, Julie Springer, Dennis Reid, Linda Nochlin, Kirk Varnedoe, Nicholas Tuele, Kerry Mason, Mary Pratt, Joyce Weiland, Gathie Falk, Judy Chicago, Robert F. Dornan, Olga Korper, Barbara Pratt Wangersky, Buseje Bailey, Jane Ash Poitras, Lisa Birke.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1998.
Target Audience Note:	14-18.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Awards Note:	Chris Award - Catégory: Humanities, 1999
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-03-01).