- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Douglas & Mcintyre (Aug 8 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1553651472
- ISBN-13: 978-1553651475
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 26.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #181,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Newfoundland's dramatic beauty and rich folklore provide fertile subject matter that, when combined with outport-raised artist David Blackwood's technical brilliance, has brought his work into the international limelight. William Gough's David Blackwood: Master Printmaker goes a long way toward showing why. This ship captain's son's large-scale etchings of whales and whalers, fishermen and seal hunters, and Newfoundland's magnificent land- and seascapes can be found in prominent collections including the Uffizi in Florence and that of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. At home, he's been awarded the Order of Canada and multiple honourary degrees, and one of his etchings, "Fire Down on the Labrador," set a record ($24,200 in 1998) for the highest price paid at auction for a Canadian print.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx (The Shipping News) provides a one-page appreciation of Blackwood's work and its evocation of a way of life that has been lost since the artist's pre-Confederation childhood--he was born in 1941, eight years before Newfoundland and Labrador joined the Dominion of Canada. But the text that really matters comes from poet and novelist Gough (Maud's House, The Proper Lover) who, like Blackwood, spent his childhood in Wesleyville soaking up the local lore. Gough draws on his own vivid and poetic memories to illuminate Blackwood's art. Describing the 1975 print, "September 3rd: Uncle Dan Sturge Home from the Labrador," he writes:
"Sometimes when a ship returned, the news of death awaited those on board. Sorrow would be spelled out in full by one house or another, its blinds drawn like yellow teeth against the daylight... On those days there would be a great stillness amongst the youngsters lined along the wharves... And Uncle Dan Sturge knew by the quiet, by the still, by the sound the wind makes as it rounds the shape of a new grave, that he had lost his cherished wife."The illustrations--including an annotated set of working proofs for "Portrait of Heber Fifield as a Great Mummer"--are also first rate. --Deirdre Hanna --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"David Blackwood: Master Printmaker pulls together more than 140 of the artist's prints in a beautifully designed tribute with exquisite, four-colour reproductions and a text by novelist, screenwriter, and fellow Newfoundlander William Gough." (Atlantic Books Today )
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inspiring and haunting, July 10 2009
By Lauren B. Davis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: David Blackwood (Hardcover)
If Blackwood's dream-inducing images aren't enough to persuade you this book belongs on your shelf, then consider the words of novelist/playwright William Gough and novelist Annie Proulx. Annie Proulx calls Blackwood's work a "glass-bottomed boat of memory." Gough says, "Spires may burn, boards may shift to ash, grass may cover footings -- but light will live and find an eye." Haunting, and inspiring, in equal measure.
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