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In Facets of Eros, David Sobelman, an award-winning writer of
documentaries, explores the early drawings of Canadian artist
Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabulary. He does
so by looking at the drawings-so open in their sexuality, so
puzzling in their vision of motherhood, so sensually affirming in
their engagement with death in the Shoah camps-through the lens of
that ancient figure Eros, as first discussed by Plato. This is a
startling, original approach to a startling, original artist, the
meta-portrait of a singular woman who expressed the world she saw
around her with her hands.
2018 marks the tenth anniversary of an International Congress that
gathered in Ghent to celebrate and discuss the work of Etty
Hillesum, a woman who died in Auschwitz, whose diaries and letters
have been translated into 67 languages. She is unquestionably one
of the most singular voices from the Holocaust. But most in our
country have never heard of her. So, who was Etty Hillesum? She was
a Dutch Jew who died at the age of 29, leaving behind deeply
moving, intellectually profound diaries and letters written during
the last two years of her life under Nazi occupation. We only have
these works because she threw them from a train on her way to the
death camp. This volume is their visionary responses to
Etty Hillesum.
A celebration of the whole of Claire Wilks' work and her presence
in the world as a woman of great character and a singular artist,
the book presents her career-with ample selections of her drawings,
sculptures, and monoprints-including appearances in Rome,
Stockholm, Jerusalem, Zagreb, New York, Venice, Mexico City and, of
course, her home town, Toronto. In the company of her works are
commentaries, critical responses, poems, photographs, and art by
many who were touched by her career and personality.
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