David Hockney : a bigger picture / [exhibition curators, Marco Livingstone and Edith Devaney].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livingstone, Marco.

Devaney, Edith.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.

Museum Ludwig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hockney, David.

Hockney, David--Exhibitions.

Landscapes in art--Exhibitions.

Landscapes in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Abrams, [2012]

Summary:

David Hockney has enjoyed greater popularity internationally than any other British artist this century. This book, published to coincide a major retrospective of Hockney's drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, investigates the relationship between Hockney's art and his life, and charts the shift in Hockney's exuberant work from the early 1950s to his most recent explorations in paintings, drawings, and prints. 181 illustrations, 65 in color. 10,000 print.

Contents:

President's foreword

Preface / David Hockney

The road less travelled / Marco Livingstone

The spirit of place: a certain road to happiness / Margaret Drabble

Seeing with memory: Hockney and the masters / Tim Barringer

David Hockney and Claude Lorrain: the sermon on the mount / Xavier F. Salomon

David Hockney: the technology of art / Martin Gayford

Catalogue plates

David Hockney: a chronology / Edith Devaney.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "David Hockney RA: a bigger picture" held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 Jan.-9 Apr. 2012, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 14 May-30 Sept. 2012, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 27 Oct. 2012-4 Feb. 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (page 298) and index.

ISBN:

9780500093665

0500093660

9781907533358

1907533354

9781907533044

1907533044

9781419702808

1419702807

OCLC:

777403158