The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance
in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity
than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone
traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in
the early 1960s through the more recent works that have contributed to
Hockney's international reputation. These include photocollages and
highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera as well as his embrace of
technology, which show the continuing preoccupation with invention and
artifice that has made the artist's work at once popular and enduring.
The fourth edition of this best-selling World of Art title includes
updated information on Hockney's work in the past twenty years, such as
his foray into the world of digital art including large-scale iPad
drawings and video.