A Bigger Message by Martin Gayford
This new edition includes a revised introduction and five new chapters which cover Hockney's production since 2011, including preparations for the Bigger Picture exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockney's iPad drawings and plans for the show. A difficult period followed the exhibition's huge success, marked first by a stroke, which left Hockney unable to speak for a long period, followed by the vandalism of the artist's Totem tree-trunk, and the tragic suicide of his assistant shortly thereafter. Escaping the gloom, in spring 2013 Hockney moved back to L.A. A few months later, Martin Gayford visited Hockney in the L.A. studio, where the fully-recovered artist was hard at work on his Comedie humaine, a series of full-length portraits painted in the studio The conversations between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprising and revealing observations on other artists--Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among them--and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney's birthplace, and California.
'A remarkable picture of Britain’s greatest living artist' - Daily Telegraph
'Elegantly and simply written … full not only of good-quality reproductions of Hockney’s paintings, but characterful photos of the artist at work' - Observer
'A rewarding book that turns out to be far more than simply the story of how and why Hockney made his most recent picturesIt offers a series of snappy essays on the complicated act of looking' - Times Literary Supplement
'Elegantly and simply written … full not only of good-quality reproductions of Hockney’s paintings, but characterful photos of the artist at work' - Observer
'A rewarding book that turns out to be far more than simply the story of how and why Hockney made his most recent picturesIt offers a series of snappy essays on the complicated act of looking' - Times Literary Supplement
Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of many books, including Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art, (with Philippe de Montebello), A Bigger Message, Modernists & Mavericks, A History of Pictures (with David Hockney), The Pursuit of Art and Spring Cannot be Cancelled, all published by Thames & Hudson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500292259 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500292256 |
| Title | A Bigger Message |
| Author | Martin Gayford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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