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A Bigger Message

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"Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist." —Booklist

David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebrated—he is perhaps the world's most popular living painter. But he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art.

This new edition includes a revised introduction and five new chapters which cover Hockney's production since 2011, including preparations for the Bigger Picture exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockney's iPad drawings and plans for the show. A difficult period followed the exhibition's huge success, marked first by a stroke, which left Hockney unable to speak for a long period, followed by the vandalism of the artist's Totem tree-trunk, and the tragic suicide of his assistant shortly thereafter. Escaping the gloom, in spring 2013 Hockney moved back to L.A. A few months later, Martin Gayford visited Hockney in the L.A. studio, where the fully-recovered artist was hard at work on his Comédie humaine, a series of full-length portraits painted in the studio.

The conversations between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprising and revealing observations on other artists—Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among them—and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney's birthplace, and California.

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson Edition: Revised

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 16, 2016

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780500773406
  • File size: 135989 KB
  • Release date: August 16, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780500773406
  • File size: 135989 KB
  • Release date: August 16, 2016

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Art Nonfiction

Languages

English

"Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist." —Booklist

David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebrated—he is perhaps the world's most popular living painter. But he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art.

This new edition includes a revised introduction and five new chapters which cover Hockney's production since 2011, including preparations for the Bigger Picture exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockney's iPad drawings and plans for the show. A difficult period followed the exhibition's huge success, marked first by a stroke, which left Hockney unable to speak for a long period, followed by the vandalism of the artist's Totem tree-trunk, and the tragic suicide of his assistant shortly thereafter. Escaping the gloom, in spring 2013 Hockney moved back to L.A. A few months later, Martin Gayford visited Hockney in the L.A. studio, where the fully-recovered artist was hard at work on his Comédie humaine, a series of full-length portraits painted in the studio.

The conversations between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprising and revealing observations on other artists—Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among them—and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney's birthplace, and California.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Thames & Hudson
    Edition:
    Revised

    Kindle Book
    Release date: August 16, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780500773406
    File size: 135989 KB
    Release date: August 16, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780500773406
    File size: 135989 KB
    Release date: August 16, 2016

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English