David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012

by christopher simon sykes
David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012

by christopher simon sykes

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Overview

In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Simon Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist.
 
David Hockney is one of the most influential and best-loved artists of the twentieth century. His career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the past five decades. Picking up Hockney's story in 1975, this book finds him flitting between Notting Hill and California, where he took inspiration for the swimming pool series of paintings; creating acclaimed set designs for operas around the world; and embracing emerging technologies—the Polaroid camera and fax machine in the seventies and eighties and, most recently, the iPad. Hockney's boundless energy extends to his personal life too, and this volume illuminates the glamorous circles he moves in, as well as his sometimes turbulent relationships.

Christopher Simon Sykes has been granted exclusive and unprecedented access to Hockney's paintings, notebooks, and diaries, and a great number of them are reproduced here. Featuring interviews with family, friends, and Hockney himself, this is a lively and revelatory account of an acclaimed artist and an extraordinary man.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780385539555
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/11/2014
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 448
File size: 70 MB
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About the Author

CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES is a photographer and writer. He specializes in architectural and garden photography and writes on architecture and social history. Sykes worked with Eric Clapton on his autobiography, Clapton, and his work has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, and Architectural Digest. He lives with his wife and daughter in North London.

Table of Contents

Sykes, Christopher Simon

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgements xvii

Prologue 5

1 My Parents and Myself 9

2 The Blue Guitar 36

3 Paper Pools 62

4 Santa Monica Blvd 82

5 Mulholland Drive 107

6 Parade 135

7 Drawing With a Camera 157

8 Hockney Paints the Stage 184

9 A Walk Round the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan 205

10 Pearblossom Hwy 226

11 The Road To Malibu 255

12 Tennis 278

13 Very New Paintings 300

14 Garrowby Hill 320

15 Secret Knowledge 335

16 George and Mary Christie 348

17 The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate 359

Notes 391

Bibliography 409

Index 413

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