Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This special edition follows the life and work of David Hockney. Year after year, we watch him reinvent his art, incorporating new theories of perception, embracing new media, and reinterpreting old masters. The volume contains illustrations of all his central works, drawings and prints, portrait photos and exhibition views, as well as texts combining a biography with contemporary reviews and Hockney's own reflections on art.
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This edition is specially created for the 40 years program of TASCHEN and follows the life and work of David Hockney. Year after year, we watch him reinvent his art, incorporating new theories of perception, embracing new media, and reinterpreting old masters. The volume contains illustrations of all his central works, drawings and prints, portrait photos and exhibition views, as well as texts combining a biography with contemporary reviews and Hockney's own reflections on art.
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This special edition traces David Hockney's work over the course of six decades. We follow his stylistic development and experience how he reinvents himself again and again--from his teenage years at art school to the extensive portrait series, iPad drawings, and landscape paintings of recent years. The volume contains illustrations of all his important works, plus drawings, prints, portrait photos, and exhibition views, as well as a chronological text on his life and work, quoting extensively from contemporary reviews and Hockney's own reflections on art.
About the series
TASCHEN turns 40 this year Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. In 2020, we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program--now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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As a special edition to mark TASCHEN's 40th anniversary, this volume presents the life and work of David Hockney year by year as a dialogue between his works and voices from the time period. From the London of the Swinging Sixties, via Californian swimming pools, to the expansive landscapes of his native Yorkshire, we discover how Hockney undertakes his artistic research and where he finds inspiration for his multifaceted work.
About the series
TASCHEN turns 40 this year Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. In 2020, we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program--now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
Synopsis
Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception--for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities. He has consistently created unforgettable images: works with graphic lines and integrated text in the Swinging Sixties in London; the famous swimming pool series as a representation of the 1970s California lifestyle, closely observed portraits and brightly colored, oversized landscapes after his eventual return to his native Yorkshire. In addition to drawings in which he transfers what he sees directly onto paper, there are multiperspective Polaroid collages that open up the space into a myriad of detailed views, and iPad drawings in which he captures light using a most modern medium--testaments to Hockney's enduring delight in experimentation.
This special edition has been newly assembled from the two volumes of the David Hockney: A Bigger Book monograph to celebrate TASCHEN's 40th anniversary. Hockney's life and work is presented year by year as a dialogue between his works and voices from the time period, alongside reviews and reflections by the artist in a chronological text, supplemented by portrait photographs and exhibition views. Together they open up new perspectives, page after page, revealing how Hockney undertakes his artistic research, how his painting develops, and where he finds inspiration for his multifaceted work.
About the series
TASCHEN turns 40 this year Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. In 2020, we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program--now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.