Hockney, David.

“David Hockney” by David Hockney. Introductory Essay by Henry Geldzahler.

Second Edition. London, Thames and Hudson, 1980. 22cm x 27.5cm. 312 pages with 434 illustrations, including 60 plates in full colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example: Birth, Family and early apprenticeship. Bradford Grammar School. Bradford School of Art. Royal College of Art. Traditionalist v. Abstract expressionists. The Young Contemporaries. The Richard Hamilton Prize. Walt Whitman’s code. Cavafy in the Semi Egyptian Style . The Tea paintings. Early Graphic Work. The First Trip to America. Cavafy’s Dignitaries. The artist and his dealer. Domestic Scenes. Showers. Egypt 1963. California themes. Swimming Pools. Still Lifes. Realism turning into naturalism. The New Academies. The source of light. Acrylic v. Oil. Figurative art and the new synthesis. Painting and Photography. Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. Drawing. Life studies from the Nude. The Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition. The semi-naturalistic style and painting a relationship. A commissioned portrait. End of a relationship. Coping with life: Nine new paintings. Japan. An unfinished painting. The Louvre Show. New etching technique. New drawings, new paintings and an opera design.

David Hockney, OM, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Kensington, London. Hockney also maintains two residences in Los Angeles, one in Nicholas Canyon, as well as an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, the city where he has lived on and off for more than 30 years. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Art · Art – Rare · Catalogue Four – International Art · David Hockney · David Hockney Collection · Library & Collection Building
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 591BB