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Town,“he's an ink junkie for life,and that is never long enough”.The fruits of Town's habit are laid before readers in thesumptuous new collection of Harold Town Drawings,justpublished by McClelland &Stewart Limited.The book is atonce a strikingly handsome production,an awesome demon-stration of Town's startling capacity,and unmistakably theCanadian art book of the year.Robert Fulford has contributedan illuminating preface and brief essays for each of the sevensubject portfolios the book contains.The drawings are repro-duced in black and white and colour.  \nThe appreciation that follows is from Robert Fulford'spreface.  \nHarold Town,or at least the Harold Town revealed by the 195drawings in this book,cannot be \"placed\"in the usual manner ofart criticism.He can be encircled,prodded,poked,commentedon,described from this aspect or that (in the manner of theelephant and the blind men),applauded,criticized,appreciated,and loved.But he cannot be placed because he refuses,in hismind,to choose a place for himself and refuses,through his art,to let anyone else find a place for him.Harold Town is an artistoutside his own time...because he refuses to adapt himself,either spiritually or aesthetically,to the style and the attitude,the particular repressions and suppressions,of his time on earth..  \nIn a world where eccentricity is all but officially banned,Townhas remained defiantly eccentric.In a world where sculptorsmostly stick to sculpting,printmakersto printmaking,and paintersto painting,Town has worked in any medium that has caught hisfancy at any time and,almost invariably,he has proved a masterof it.In a world where artists are well advised to acquire stylistictrademarks early and then stick to them,Town has been defiantlyeclectic....In fashion and out,as hero or unknown,Town haspersisted in making the art-bjects that he has wanted to make..  \nJust as Town is our greatest draughtsman,so is he also themost revealing,the most confessional.We are accustomed to thenotion that in drawings an artist expresses himself with specialintimacy,that in this most offhand of media he becomes mostrevealing of his emotions.But Town's drawings push this notionto another level.With Town's drawings-not usually with just one,but with a selection like this book-we are invited into the artist'smemory and unconsciousness.We are allowed to consider not  \nonly masses and lines but dreams and nightmares;indeed we arepermitted to examine both a personal and an intellectualhistory....  \nSince the first moment when he appeared on the public stage,in the 1950s,Town has set himself strenuously against the tradi-tion of Canadian art;the tradition,as R.H.Hubbard defined itperfectly in An Anthology of Canadian Art(Oxford,1960),of\"that peculiar combination of directness,sober restraint,honestexpression,and decorative intent that has made Canadian art whatt is.\"Town is sometimes direct,and he is honest,and maybe he isdecorative,when he chooses to be;but that phrase“sober re-straint,\"so accurately applied to Canadian art at the moment whenTown first appeared,now describes Town's opposite.He takespride in being unrestrained,in taking risks,in making the unsafeand the unsober gesture.  \nBut he is genuinely moved by craftsmanship,his own or any-one else's....So Town,whose interest in craftsmanship has ifanything grown during the period when craftsmanship's prestigehas declined,sounds like an anachronism when,in 1969,he makesstatements like these:\"The thing that separates the men from theboys is where you leave something out of a drawing.If it works,the interior rhythm holds it together.Allthose absences have tobe there.What doesn't exist has to be as well drawn as what doesexist.I see it when I don't draw it.\"”But anachronism or not,enfant terrible or grand old man,Harold Town is,among otherthings,the best maker of drawings we have had in Canada,andthere are st","cbCaitCjB1Y1Ojch","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitCjB1Y1Ojch","pdf",1581081,"English","# 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