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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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Martin Gayford,David Hockney
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‘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…
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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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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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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…
A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of Britain’s most important artists: David Hockney.
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…
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A wide-ranging monograph of over 100 prints by Hockney
David Hockney (b. 1937) is renowned for his distinctive paintings, mostly portraiture and landscape, but also for his approach to works…
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David Hockney, Martin Gayford
A collection of insights into art, life, nature, creativity, and more from legendary British artist David Hockney.
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.
The definitive retrospective of one of the world's most popular and acclaimed artists.
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.
David Hockney,Martin Gayford
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…
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Love Life presents a selection of 41 of David Hockney's finest early drawings, in ink, pencil and watercolour.
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Susanna Avery-Quash
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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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…
P. Clothier
This text describes the work of David Hockney covering his contribution to 20th-century art.
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James Cahill
The story of Hockney’s truly individual life in one short volume
Peter Webb
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
This book will open your eyes to a world full of beautiful images. It presents a journey through the history of art, from the very first artistic manifestations to the…
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…
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…
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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Martin Gayford
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 -…
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…
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 reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy.
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. Text in French.
This publication accompanies the first exhibition to explore the remarkable early work of two greats of post-war painting, Alan Davie (1920-2014) and David Hockney (b.1937).
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…
Jan Svenungsson,Helen Little,Gabriele Jutz,Larissa Kikol
David Hockney (born 1937 in Bradford) is one of the most influential and technically versatile artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This new publication gathers some of his most…
David Hockney’s uplifting iPad drawings of the arrival of spring near his house and studio in Normandy, France.
Nicola Vitale
This essay builds an argument in favour of tracing a different path for the visual arts, in which art might be able to recover its fullness and universality.
David Hockney is one of the greatest draughtsmen of all time, and his drawings of the 1960s and 1970s are among his finest works. This selection of both well-known and…
Michael Bird
A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.
