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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A burst of springtime joy' Daily
Telegraph 'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and
light' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated' Guardian David Hockney
reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural
Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic
tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the
change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at
bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little
difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy
farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to
paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced
isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.
Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms
art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of
new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art
critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator. Their
exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney's new,
unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings alongside works by
van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others. We see how Hockney is
propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of
wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for
sixty years yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics
or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four acres of
northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him for
decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees. He has
much to teach us, not only about how to see... but about how to
live.
At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were
coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his 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 medium he has been using for over a decade. Working
outdoors was an antidote to the anxiety of the moment for Hockney
– 'We need art, and I do think it can relieve stress,' he says.
This uplifting publication – produced to accompany a major
exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts – includes 116 of his new
iPad paintings and shows to full effect Hockney's singular skill in
capturing the exuberance of nature.
'I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly
fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times 'Enormously good-humoured
and entertaining... Hockney asks big questions about the nature of
picture-making and the relationship between painters and
photography in a way that no other contemporary artists seems to.'
Andrew Marr, New Statesman A new, compact edition of David Hockney
and Martin Gayford's brilliantly original book, with a revised
final chapter and three entirely new Hockney artworks Informed and
energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with
cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin
Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the
millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do
you show movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films
and television connect with old masters? Juxtaposing a rich variety
of images - a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock
print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a
Velazquez painting - the authors cross the normal boundaries
between high culture and popular entertainment, and make unexpected
connections across time and media. Building on Hockney's
groundbreaking book Secret Knowledge, they argue that film,
photography, painting and drawing are deeply interconnected.
Insightful and thought provoking, A History of Pictures is an
important contribution to our appreciation of how we represent our
reality. This new edition has a revised final chapter with some of
Hockney's latest works, including the stained-glass window in
Westminster Abbey.
Winner of the prestigious BolognaRagazzi New Horizons Award 2019 A
History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through
art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we
make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the
bestselling book for adults, this children's edition of A History
of Pictures is told through conversations between the artist David
Hockney and the author Martin Gayford, who talk about art with
inspiring simplicity and clarity. Rose Blake's illustrations
illuminate the narratives of both authors to bring the history of
art alive for a young audience.
Secret Knowledge created an international sensation when it was
published in 2001. Now, Hockney takes his controversial thesis -
that some of the masterpieces of Western art were created using
optical devices - even further in light of new and exciting
discoveries. In 32 new pages, he demonstrates how Renaissance
artists used mirrors and lenses to help them develop chiaroscuro,
perspective, and the arts of depicting three-dimensional space and
forms. Stunning in its presentation and wide-ranging in its
implications, Secret Knowledge remains the art book sensation of
the new century.
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 is 40! 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. Today 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.
David Hockney is one of the greatest draughtsmen of all time, and
his drawings of the 1960s and 1970s are among his finest works.
This selection of 41 drawings, both well-known and unfamiliar,
demonstrates how his love of life is expressed through his
extraordinary ability to closely observe and translate into art the
world around him. Friends, places and inanimate objects are all
depicted with insight and energy.
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney
are like no other version you will have read before. Although
inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, from Arthur Rackham
to Edmund Dulac, Hockney's extraordinary etchings re-imagine these
strange and supernatural stories for a modern audience, capturing
their distinctive atmosphere in a style that is recognisably the
artist's own. Reprinted for the first time since its original
publication in 1969, Hockney's book brings together some well-known
tales - Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin - with others that are less
familiar. Informed by great art of the past, attuned to
idiosyncrasies of character and incident, and fresh in execution
and content, his illustrations invite us to read each one as if for
the first time.
This much acclaimed book, newly available in paperback, is the
definitive retrospective of the most popular serious artist in the
world today. Covering all media over almost fifty years, and
presented thematically to show the evolution and diversity of
Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and
photography, it also features quotes from the artist himself that
illuminate the passionate thinking behind his work. Its huge
international success confirms and reinforces Hockney's position as
the world's most popular living artist.
Remember fifty years ago when everyone smoked? Since tobacco found
its way into Europe in the sixteenth century, smoking has been a
controversial issue. Fifty years ago, almost everyone smoked, and
fifty years before that, smokers were in the doghouse; up until the
early twentieth century, cigarettes were illegal in a number of
U.S. states. Needless to say, smoking has always been a ready
source of revenue. It has also been a source of health concerns,
both real and imagined. This mixture of pleasure, money and risk
that comes with the act of smoking means that it's rarely treated
fairly by politicians, health professionals or the public.
Nowadays, tough anti-smoking laws are to be obeyed in most corners
of the globe. The misinformation about, and unreasoning hostility
directed at, smoking and smokers is one of the major concerns of
this book. After all, smoking has no public cost. Isn't it just the
individual smokers who are at risk? Prompted by this burgeoning
fascination, Staddon looks further into the facts. And the more he
looks, the weaker the case against smoking as a public health issue
becomes. Is ETS really dangerous to children? And if so, how can
science prove it? And if smoking has no public cost and the medical
case for third-party harm is weak, why are smokers still being
victimised? In this provocative, thought-provoking book, Staddon is
determined to uncover the truth about smoking. But the truth's not
always pretty.
David Hockney introduces his two dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie,
in this delightful new book. The result of both sharp observation
and affection, these paintings and drawings are lyrical studies in
form and color. A text by the artist himself gives a
behind-the-scenes glimpse of how to work with models who don't
necessarily want to sit still. Hockney has provided additional
drawings made specially on the page, and has been largely involved
in the layout of the book, creating a charming and unified whole.
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000
years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it
is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from
about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by
David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book.
They privilege no medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16
chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made, and
insistently link `art' to human skills and human needs. Each
chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try
to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the `Mona Lisa'
beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese, Japanese
and Persian painting? Why are optical projections always going to
be more beautiful than HD television can ever be? How have the
makers of images depicted movement? What makes marks on a flat
surface interesting? Energized by two lifetimes of looking at
pictures, combined with a great artist's 70-year experience of
experimentation as he makes them, this profoundly moving and
enlightening volume will be the art book of the decade.
In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the
landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Although his
passionate interest in new technologies has led him to develop a
virtuoso drawing technique on an iPad, he has also been accompanied
outdoors by the traditional sketchbook, an invaluable tool as he
works quickly to capture the changing light and fleeting effects of
the weather. Executed in watercolour and ink, these panoramic
scenes have the spatial complexity of finished paintings - the
broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land - yet
convey the immediacy of Hockney's impressions. And as in the views
down village streets and across kitchen tables that appear
alongside them, his rooted and fond knowledge of the area around
the East Yorkshire Wolds is always clear. If you know the region,
the location of the sketches is unmistakable; if you don't, its
features will come to life in these pages.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'We have lost touch with nature, rather
foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time
be over and then what? What have we learned?... The only real
things in life are food and love, in that order, just like [for]
our little dog Ruby... and the source of art is love. I love life.'
DAVID HOCKNEY Praise for Spring Cannot be Cancelled: 'This book is
not so much a celebration of spring as a springboard for ideas
about art, space, time and light. It is scholarly, thoughtful and
provoking' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated... Gayford is a
thoughtfully attentive critic with a capacious frame of reference'
Guardian 'Hockney and Gayford's exchanges are infused with their
deep knowledge of the history of art ... This is a charming book,
and ideal for lockdown because it teaches you to look harder at the
things around you' Lynn Barber,The Spectator 'Designed to
underscore [Hockney's] original message of hope, and to further
explore how art can gladden and invigorate ... meanders amiably
from Rembrandt, to the pleasure principle, andouillette sausages
and, naturally, to spring' Daily Telegraph On turning eighty, David
Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place
to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep
the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown
struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the
centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a
year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he
relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater
devotion to his art. Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting
manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is
based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between
Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and
collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of
Hockney's new, unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings
alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others. We see how
Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and
sense of wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public
eye for sixty years, yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view
of critics or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four
acres of northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him
for decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees. He has
much to teach us, not only about how to see... but about how to
live. With 142 illustrations in colour
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David Hockneyas controversial book, now revised in paperback with
thirty-two new pages of evidence
Join one of the most influential artists of our time as he
investigates the painting techniques of the Old Masters. Hockneyas
extensive research led him to conclude that artists such as
Caravaggio, VelAzquez, da Vinci, and other hyperrealists actually
used optics and lenses to create their masterpieces.
In this passionate yet pithy book, Hockney takes readers on a
journey of discovery as he builds a case that mirrors and lenses
were used by the great masters to create their highly detailed and
realistic paintings and drawings. Hundreds of the best-known and
best-loved paintings are reproduced alongside his straightforward
analysis. Hockney also includes his own photographs and drawings to
illustrate techniques used to capture such accurate likenesses.
Extracts from historical and modern documents and correspondence
with experts from around the world further illuminate this
thought-provoking book that will forever change how the world looks
at art.
"Secret Knowledge" will open your eyes to how we perceive the
world and how we choose to represent it.
Artist & Writer Jonathon Brown combines unique deft sketches
from bars & cafes around the world with a witty account of how
to entertain at home, what to get right and how to cook what to
cook
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