David Hockney
The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
$71.99
- Hardcover
168 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2021
Summary
An uplifting celebration of spring and the power of art against lockdown: Hockney’s new iPad drawings, in an intimate sketchbook format.
At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his new house, studio and garden in Normandy. From there, he witnessed the arrival of spring, and recorded the blossoming of the surrounding landscape on his iPad, a method of drawing he has been using for over a decade. Drawing outd…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912520640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1912520648 |
| Author: | Edith Devaney, David Hockney, William Boyd |
| Publisher: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Imprint: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 848g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 185mm x 256mm |
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Immersing himself in a bucolic farm setting, David Hockney finds inspired relief from lockdown.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 23 May - 26 August 2021.
About The Author
Edith Devaney
William Boyd is the author of sixteen novels, among them A Good Man in Africa (1981), An Ice Cream War (1982), Any Human Heart (2002), Restless (2006) and Trio (2020).
Edith Devaney is Contemporary Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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