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conversations with david hockney
$28.00
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2025
Summary
Hockney on Art: A Master’s Perspective on Creativity and Seeing
The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity.
David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this now classic book, filled with anecdote, insight, passion and wit, Hockney reveals the fruits of his lifelong meditation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500298350 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500298351 |
| Author: | Martin Gayford |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 528g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 221mm x 179mm |
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‘A remarkable picture of Britain’s greatest living artist’ - Daily Telegraph‘Elegantly and simply written’ - Observer‘A rewarding book that turns out to be far more than simply the story of how and why Hockney made his most recent pictures. It offers a series of snappy essays on the complicated act of looking’ - Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Martin Gayford
Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Spring Cannot be Cancelled and A History of Pictures, both with David Hockney; Man with a Blue Scarf (in which he recounts the experience of being painted by Freud); Modernists and Mavericks; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939-1954, with David Dawson; Venice: City of Pictures; and How Painting Happens (and why it matters), all published by Thames & Hudson.
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