A Bigger Message: Conversations With David Hockney (revised Edition)
by Martin Gayford /
2016 / English / EPUB
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“Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume
encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.”
―
“Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume
encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.”
―Booklist
BooklistDavid 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.
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.
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. 181 illustrations, 154 in
color
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. 181 illustrations, 154 in
color