DAVID HOCKNEY

• - Author:  Hans Werner Holzwarth, David Hockney
• - Hardback
• - 512 pages
• - Publisher: Taschen
• - Length: 23cm, Width: 16cm

Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of colour, 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: working 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 coloured, oversized landscapes after his eventual return to his native Yorkshire.

This special edition has been 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.

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