The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

Buku ini memuat karya seni lukis oleh 11 pelukis dari KAnada yang mendobrak tradisi seni lukis Kanada. Mereka menyebut kelompoknya sebagai "The Group of Seven". Karya yang ditampilkan dalam buku ini sejumlah 400 lukisan. Anggota dari grup tersebut adalah Lawren HArris, J.E.H. MacDonald, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, F.H. Warley, Frank Carmichael, Frank Johnson, A.J. Casson, Edwin Holgate, Lemoine FitsGerald an Tom Thomson yang wafat sebelum grup tersebut didirikan

Sixth Burnaby Print Show

Silcox comments briefly upon the diversity of the 60 prints by Canadian artists selected for exhibition

Christopher Pratt : Prints, Related Studies, Collages, Stencil, Proofs, 1975-1980

Silcox defines Pratt's work as the expression of an esssential form and describes the process through which he develops his images. Biographical notes. 5 bibl. ref

Harold Town : The First Exhibition of New Work, 1969-1973

Noting Town's painting technique, Silcox discusses the artist's "Parks" and "Vale Variation" series. Biographical notes

Michael Morris : Early Works, 1965-1972

Silcox' reminisces about his frienship with Morris, while MacWilliam surveys the artist's work and his contribution to art in Vancouver. Biographical notes. 33 bibl. ref

You Are Now in the Middle of a N.E. Thing Co. Landscape : Works by Ian and Ingrid Baxter, 1965-1971

Discussing the view of conceptual art as existing outside major centres, Wood presents the work of the N.E. Thing Co. (NETCO) as "not derivative but distributive, not subsidiary but on-line." Shaw examines NETCO's landscape works, encompassing "nature, mapping, environmental and communication systems, the body, and the suburban and the urban." In individual texts (some reprinted), nine essayists deal with the relation of business and art, NETCO's media use, and the ethos of the group's activity. 42 bibl. ref