Black Ice: David Blackwood's Prints of Newfoundland - Softcover

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9781553657798: Black Ice: David Blackwood's Prints of Newfoundland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553657799 ISBN 13: 9781553657798

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011

Canadian artist David Blackwood has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for the past 30 years. His stories draw on childhood memories, dreams, superstitions, the oral tradition and the political realities of the community on Bonavista Bay, where he was born and raised. His collection of works has created an iconography of Newfoundland that is as universal as it is personal, as mythic as it is rooted in reality, and as timeless as it is linked to specific events.

A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated retrospective, Black Ice features over 70 prints, accompanied by essays from various disciplines - geology, history, folklore and literature. It features an insightful interview with David Blackwood by Globe and Mail art critic Gary Michael Gault and contributions by pre-eminent scholars and writers in Canada and Ireland. Award-winning author Michael Crummey writes a beautiful personal piece about outport Newfoundland; Sean Cadigan, head of Memorial University's Department of History, writes about Newfoundland history; geologists Martin Feely and Derek Wilton describe the province's unique landscape; folklorist Caoimhe N� Sh�illeabh�in the tradition of mummering; and the AGO's Dr. Katharine Lochnan contextualizes Blackwood's work in an elegant piece about his artistic development.

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About the Author:

Dr. Katharine Lochnan is the Art Gallery of Ontario's Deputy Director of Research and the R. Fraser Elliott Curator of Prints and Drawings.

Review:

"Sometimes a great artist appears just at the point of historical shift and catches the essence of a region and time. . . . The Newfoundland of boats and cod, of mummers and sealers, the brilliant flags, the hoarse voices of foghorns, ice aloof and jagged, the mug-ups and ktichen times, the coffin in the boat have become inseparable from the name of David Blackwood."—Annie Proulx

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