A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

â€œSumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.â€ â€•Booklist
David Hockneyâ€™s exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebratedâ€•he is perhaps the worldâ€™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 Hockneyâ€™s production since 2011, including preparations for the Bigger Picture exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockneyâ€™s iPad drawings and plans for the show. A difficult period followed the exhibitionâ€™s huge success, marked first by a stroke, which left Hockney unable to speak for a long period, followed by the vandalism of the artistâ€™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 ComÃ©die 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 artistsâ€•Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among themâ€•and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockneyâ€™s birthplace, and California. 181 illustrations, 154 in color
Country USA
Brand Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer Thames & Hudson
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780500292259
ReleaseDate 2016-08-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780500292259

Country	USA
Brand	Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer	Thames & Hudson
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780500292259
ReleaseDate	2016-08-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780500292259

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

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