Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
David Hockney, Martin Gayford
A collection of legendary British artist David Hockney's insights into art, life, nature, creativity and much more.
In stock at 7 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 7 shops
Susanna Avery-Quash
A celebration of the National Gallery's history of collaborating with contemporary artists, with a particular focus on David Hockney
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Martin Gayford
The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity.
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
Martin Gayford,David Hockney
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A burst of springtime joy’ Daily Telegraph
‘A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light’ The Times
‘Lavishly illustrated’ Guardian
David Hockney reflects upon…
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 -…
Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy.
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…
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. In this book, each chapter addresses an important question…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
A compact edition of Hockney and Gayford&;s brilliantly original book, with updated material and brand-new pieces of art
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing, and making images…
Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves
A masterpiece, a major work of modern art history. –Wall Street Journal Absorbing and lavishly illustrated. –New Yorker If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable…
A masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs and works of art
David Hockney is amongst the best known and most widely admired living painters in the world. This vibrant catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and the…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
From cave paintings to video games, this book shows how and why pictures have been made, linking art to the human experience. Hockney and Gayford explain each piece of art…
David Dawson,Martin Gayford
Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud’s extraordinary illustrated letters (accompanied by insightful commentary) offer an intimate glimpse of the artist’s personality and creative practice.
Martin Gayford,David Scherf
Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud’s oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before.
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
With more than 480 illustrations, this is the most comprehensive publication to date on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Lucien Freud
A sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon’s acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time
