David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition - Hardcover

Richard Benefield; David Hockney; Sarah Hogwate; Lawrence Weschler

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9783791354231: David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 379135423X ISBN 13: 9783791354231

Publisher: Prestel, 2015

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Now available in a new edition, this lavishly illustrated book captures the grand scale and vibrant colour of David Hockney s work of the 21st century..

In the past decade, having returned to England after years on the California coast, David Hockney has focused his attention on landscapes and portraits, as well as still lifes, all the while maintaining his fascination with digital technology. The resulting work is an extravagance of colour and light, ranging in dimension from billboard- to letter-size. This lush and impeccably produced book features more than 200 full-colour works of art from museum collections and Hockney's private studio, including such major recent works as The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate Wood and Bigger Yosemite. It also includes illustrations of some of his iPad drawings and self-portraits, along with film stills from the artist's "Cubist" movies. Hockney's own insight into this latest chapter of his career is found in his illuminating essay on perspective and is accompanied by thoughtful commentaries by renowned critic Lawrence Weschler and art historian Sarah Howgate.

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Review:

...this is the perfect gift for Hockneyphiles. --Brian Sewell, Essential Art Books of 2013, The Evening Standard (London)

The exhibition catalogue throbs with vivid colour, yet some of its most beautiful pages reproduce charcoal sketches Hockney has made in the last year, chronicling spring's arrival in eloquent black-and-white --Sotherbys, November 2013

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition (Prestel) has wonderful images of the artist s new (2013) charcoal sketches of the arrival of spring in Yorkshire, and also several poignant essays citing Hockney's desire to encourage people to be more active in your looking . . . you feel so much more free. Which is another way of saying, you feel more alive. --Caroline Daniel, Editor, FT Weekend, Books of the Year, 29th November 2013

About the Author:

Richard Benefield is Deputy Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. David Hockney is an internationally renowned artist and one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Sarah Howgate is Curator of Contemporary Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Lawrence Weschler is a writer of creative nonfiction and Director of The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.

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