- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Firefly Books; Special 25th Anniversary Edition edition (Sep 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1552975509
- ISBN-13: 978-1552975503
- Product Dimensions: 33 x 27.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #702,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First published in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of a Canadian painter whose brief, brilliant life, and untimely death in a mysterious canoe accident gained him mythic status in his homeland, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm quickly attained legendary status in its own right. The 25th-anniversary edition revives a classic. Co-authors Harold Town, a founder of the Painters Eleven and an icon of Canadian art himself, and art historian David P. Silcox, head of Sotheby's Canadian division, took a daring approach with this publication. They celebrate this early associate of the Group of Seven as a key creative figure without falling into the trap of cultural jingoism. Thomson, the authors maintain, was an inspired regional painter--in the best sense of that term--who stumbled upon the bold Expressionist palette pioneered by Matisse and his contemporaries despite working from a provincial backwater. Silcox writes that "the directions he was pushed by his friends did not challenge him enough," noting that "current developments of art in the United States and in Europe were generally scorned by the men who were later to form the Group of Seven." That Thomson was working at a level of creative innovation putting him a cut above his peers is the central argument of the book.
Radical not just for its frank criticism of 20th-century Canada's biggest art stars, The Silence and the Storm stands out for its approach to illustration. Many of Thomson's finest works are reproduced here in 177 painstakingly colour-matched plates, including more than 80 of Thomson's famous oil sketches in exactly their original size. This has made it a perennial favourite among Canadian art fans and collectors, not to mention artists who, in some notable instances, have appropriated the plates as raw materials for their own fine art objects. --Deirdre Hanna
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A real concerto of a book. (Peter Goddard Toronto Star 20020609)
Super-comprehensive ... 177 full-color prints. (Gilbert A. Bouchard Edmonton Journal 20020811)
Explodes with the artist's boldly colored works. (Maclean's 20011210)
The most extensive collection of [Thomson's] work ever published and a fitting tribute to a great Canadian artist. (Kitchener-Waterloo Record 20011020)
[The book] is a moving, and even beautiful, in its tribute to Canada's most beloved lost talent. (Michelle Porter New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal 20011103)
Everything a Canadian could want in an art book ... An excellent read and a feast to look at. (Robert Amos Victoria Times-Colonist 20011202)
Super-comprehensive ... 177 full-color prints. (Gilbert A. Bouchard Edmonton Journal 20020811)
Explodes with the artist's boldly colored works. (Maclean's 20011210)
The most extensive collection of [Thomson's] work ever published and a fitting tribute to a great Canadian artist. (Kitchener-Waterloo Record 20011020)
[The book] is a moving, and even beautiful, in its tribute to Canada's most beloved lost talent. (Michelle Porter New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal 20011103)
Everything a Canadian could want in an art book ... An excellent read and a feast to look at. (Robert Amos Victoria Times-Colonist 20011202)
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Shortcomings in the colour printing?, Jan 21 2011
By Benjamin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm (Hardcover)
According to the flyleaf this is the most extensive collection of the artists works, published on the occasion of the centenary of Thomson's birth. Through eight chapters the accessible and very readable text by art historian David P Silcox provides a critical commentary along with biographical details. The book includes a separate chronology, bibliography and an index of illustrations.The book is very well illustrated with 177 paintings shown in full colour, many of them to the same dimensions as the original. The pictures run with the text so they are close to where they are discussed. The captions to the pictures provide only the title, the full captions are listed separately at the back of the book. In addition there are nearly 60 black and white images including paintings and period photographs.
This is a substantial book, large in size and landscape in format, and printed on heavy stock. However there are some shortcomings, mainly due to the quality of the printing; the black and white half-tones are soft and very dense, and lack detail in the dark areas, and while the colour plate are much crisper they too suffer from a lack of detail in the dark areas, and they appear to have a cream cast to them (I have not been fortunate to see the originals and base this on a comparison with Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, which appears to be much better produced books). These are common failings with some printing of the period (1977).
It is a shame that the quality of the printing is questionable here, for there is so much to be said for having so many paintings reproduced life size.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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as advertised, Oct 26 2010
By Kitty Wallis - Published on Amazon.com
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I was glad to get this major art book for such a low price. The seller described it accuratley
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