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David Hockney,Martin Gayford
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…
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Martin Gayford
A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as, "La Serenissima"--a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art.
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In the words of the late Gillian Ayres, this is a book about "what can be done with painting." Drawing on decades of conversations with practicing painters, acclaimed author Martin…
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John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. For seven long years the couple were forced to correspond and meet…
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Philippe de Montebello,Martin Gayford
A series of conversations between Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford exploring how we experience art, how we look at it, and how we think about it.
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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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…
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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 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.
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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…
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At 31 Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or…
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 masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs and works of art
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 -…
An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art. ?ARTnews
Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art.
This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and…
An account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles…
Susanna Avery-Quash
Critic, author and art pilgrim Martin Gayford recounts some of the many journeys he has made in the course of a lifetime in pursuit of art.
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…
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.
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Antony Gormley,Martin Gayford
One of the greatest living sculptors and a well-known art critic examine the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day.
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy.
Martin Gayford,Sara Lee
Focusing on Eileen Cooper RA, this title spans the entire breadth of her career, from her early days as a singular figurative voice in British art, and her exploration of…
Jo van Gogh-Bonger,Martin Gayford
This short biography, written from a vantage point of familial intimacy, affords a revealing and, at times, heartbreaking testimony to van Gogh’s perilous life.
A sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon’s acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time
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
A lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced collection of writings on one of today’s most important and best-loved abstract painters, covering the first three decades of the career
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
Jo van Gogh-Bonger
Vincent van Gogh’s short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. It is Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Van Gogh’s sister in law who after…
Martin Gayford, Natasha Podro, Luke Farey
Frank Auerbach: The Sitters provides a comprehensive overview of the artist's portraiture.
Hughie O'Donoghue, Martin Gayford, Lee Hallman, Thomas Marks, Tanja Pirsig-Marshall
Hughie O'Donoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often standing apart from his contemporaries in the scale and…
The arrival of photography changed the course of painting forever. In this publication, the dynamic relationship between the two mediums is explored through some of the most iconic artworks of…
