A unique overview of David Hockney's prolific range and activity
David Hockney has been delighting and challenging audiences for sixty
years and celebrated artworks from across his career are at the centre
of Tate's outstanding collection. This book features over a hundred of
these paintings, prints, drawings and photographs, helping the reader to
understand the artist's changing sources of inspiration and, crucially,
where his work is going. Beginning in the 1950s when he made his first
steps to becoming a modern artist, the publication charts Hockney's
ground-breaking images of the early 1960s through to his famous
depictions of the Los Angeles cityscape. It also looks at Hockney's
much-loved portraits from the 1970s and his discovery of a new way of
dealing with time, space and perspective he called 'Moving Focus', as
well as more recent landscapes and digital images that demonstrate his
lifelong preoccupation with pictorial space and how we look at and
experience the world around us.
As well as providing a unique overview of Hockney's prolific range and
activity, this book features new texts and responses to his work by
established and emerging voices from the worlds of art, design,
literature and performance. Breathing new life into the nexus of Tate's
collection, it speaks to the artist's refusal to conform during periods
of uncertainty and polarization as he traversed the boundaries of class,
sexuality and high art and how his work still surprises, unsettles and
addresses younger generations of viewers.
