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A year-by-year journey through the life and work of David Hockney that follows the artist from London in the Swinging Sixties, via Californian swimming pools, to the landscapes of his…
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David Hockney, Martin Gayford
A collection of legendary British artist David Hockney's insights into art, life, nature, creativity and much more.
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David Hockney
Demonstrates how Renaissance artists used mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established.
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Dynamic and accessible, this graphic novel explores the complex and multifaceted career of one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most influential and iconoclastic artists. David Hockney's career is highlighted…
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Susanna Avery-Quash
A celebration of the National Gallery's history of collaborating with contemporary artists, with a particular focus on David Hockney
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A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of Britain’s most important artists: David Hockney.
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Norman Rosenthal
Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, this stunning book offers a visually engaging and detailed journey through Hockney's extraordinary life and career.
A wide-ranging monograph of over 100 prints by David Hockney
David Hockney (b. 1937) is renowned for his distinctive paintings, mostly portraiture and landscape, but also for his approach to…
Haplomatics is an animated techno-fantasy that combines original text and music by the American composer James Sellars with xerographs by the British artist David Hockney. Their collaboration has not previously…
David Hockney: Normandy Portraits accompanies a major exhibition on David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It reveals new portraits painted in Hockney's Normandy Studio between 2020 and 2022.
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Taking a look at the techniques of the Old Masters, hundreds of paintings are reproduced to show how artists would have used the technology available to them in rendering their…
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Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Hockney Interviews brings together expansive conversations held between art world icon David Hockney, who is best known for his large scale, vivid paintings, and pre-eminent curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
David Hockney,William Boyd,Edith Devaney
David Hockney’s uplifting iPad drawings of the arrival of spring near his house and studio in Normandy, France.
Showing the evolution and diversity of Hockney’s prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and photography, this title features quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the thinking behind his work.
Marco Livingstone
Published in the year Britain’s most popular artist turns 80, here is the fourth edition of this key book in the World of Art series, by the leading authority on…
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Discover the incredible life of David Hockney, the visionary artist and LGBTQ+ icon, in this book from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series
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A completely revised and updated retrospective of one of the world's most popular and acclaimed artists.
Martin Gayford,David Hockney
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy.
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David Hockney reflects upon…
Celebrating six decades of one of the most significant contemporary art galleries
This volume commemorates the 60th anniversary of GRAY, surveying the gallery's decades-long history and highlighting the critical role…
Love Life presents a selection of 41 of David Hockney's finest early drawings, in ink, pencil and watercolour.
P. Clothier
This text describes the work of David Hockney covering his contribution to 20th-century art.
Discover the incredible life of David Hockney, the visionary artist and LGBTQ+ icon, in this book from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series.
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James Cahill
The story of Hockney’s truly individual life in one short volume
Chris Stephens
David Hockney has been delighting and challenging audiences for almost sixty years. Working in an extraordinarily wide range of media with equal measures of wit and intelligence, his art has…
Martin Gayford
The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity.
Peter Webb
Suitable for David Hockney fans and dog lovers everywhere, this book deals with two of the artist’s closest friends, his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie. It includes Hockney’s paintings and drawings…
Previously available in an exclusive signed edition, this artist’s book by David Hockney now sees an unlimited XL-format release. In 120 iPhone and iPad drawings, the artist records his perceptions…
Catherine Cusset
With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter.
A charming sketchbook interspersed with David Hockney’s sketches of his dogs, Stanley and Boodgie
Helen Little
Part of the Tate Introduction series, this book offers a concise and engaging account of Hockney’s life, his art, and the ongoing debates concerning his significance.
A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, Life of David Hockney offers an accessible overview of the painter who shook the world of art with a vitality and freedom that…
A fun and colorful read-aloud book on British artist David Hockney. Exploring Art with David Hockney traces the British artist's creative journey and diverse use of artistic mediums. Through his…
Rose Blake
A fun, creative and engaging introduction to the work of one of Britain’s most exciting artists. With bold, colourful and playful illustrations by Rose Blake, Meet David Hockney is packed…
The author has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Executed in watercolour and ink, this title features panoramic scenes that have the spatial…
Brings together some well-known tales - Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin - with others that are less familiar. This title is informed by the art of the past, attuned to idiosyncrasies of character…
christopher simon sykes
The first authorized biography of one of the past century’s greatest and most influential British artists and a leading proponent of Pop Art. Sykes had unprecedented access to Hockney and…
Originally published in Great Britain as Hockney: the biography, vol. 2 –T.p. verso.
James Cahill,Michael Lovell Pank,Marina Vaizey
Cv/VAR 104 reviews ‘David Hockney RAL A Bigger Picture’, exhibited at The Royal Academy January to April 2012. The project of creating monumental landscape paintings was based on a small…
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does drawing make one ‘see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still’, as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media - from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad -…
Sarah Howgate,Isabel Seligman
This book, which accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings inover 20 years,will explore Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to now, with a focus on…
David Hockney,Martin Gayford
A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford’s brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney artworks
David Hockney and Martin Gayford take children on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and…
La vie et l'oeuvre de David Hockney est retracee annee apres annee dans cette monographie qui suit l'artiste du Londres des Swinging Sixties aux piscines de Californie, puis dans les…
