David hockney 1972
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An expert’s guide to David Hockney: five must-read books on the British artist
“Hockney is an artist who has changed direction, media and idiom repeatedly”
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“I’m reading Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past again at the moment,” says David Hockney in a new book of conversations with the writer Martin Gayford. Hockney is not often one for reflection; his usual mode is one of looking forward to new seasons, new projects and experimenting with the latest technology. But Marcel Proust’s great novel about memory and the essence of time is an apt reference in the recently pubslihed Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy. While the book revolves around Hockney’s most recent bodies of work, made after moving to Normandy, it also touches on a vast array of topics from Gustave Flaubert, the Bayeux Tapestry and Claude Monet’s love of bacon and eggs for breakfast, to a chapter devoted to “one of David’s favourite subjects”: the depiction of water and reflections.
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David Hockney
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington and London as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu. He has an office and stores his archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California.
On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction. It broke the previous record which was set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. Hockney held the record until 15 May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour by selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.
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David Hockney: The Biography Volume 1, 1937-1975 by Christopher Simon Sykes
This is a very enjoyable and enlightening biography of the first part of David Hockney's extraordinary life.
Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colourful and intimate portrait of our greatest living artist.
The Biography: 1937-1975 tells the fascinating tale of the first part of David Hockney's life. Born in 1937, Hockney grew up in Bradford during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old he knew he wanted to be an artist, and after leaving school he went on to study at Bradford Art College and later at the Royal College of Art in London. This story is one of precocious achievement and Swinging 60's in London where the artist befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation.
This is the first volume of the biography, subtitled 'A Rake's Progress'. Volume two, subtitled 'A Pilgrim's Progress,' is also li
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