A bigger message : conversations with David Hockney

Gayford, Martin, 1952-

Book 2011

A record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.

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ISBN:

9780500238875
0500238871

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Conversations with David Hockney

Notes:

"161 illustrations, 154 in color."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-241) and index

Contents:

Introduction : Turner with an iPhone
A Yorkshire paradise
Drawing
The trap of naturalism
The problems of depiction
A bigger and bigger picture
Scale : a bigger studio
Seeing more clearly
Drawing on a telephone and in a computer
Painting with memory
Photography and drawing
Caravaggio's camera
Way out west : space exploration
Cleaning Claude
Movies and moving through the landscape
Music and movement
Van Gogh and the power of drawing
Drawing on an iPad
The power of images
Theatre
Lighting
Nine screens on Woldgate
David Hockney's life and work

LCCN:

2011922556

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2643494

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