A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney - Softcover

Gayford, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500238871 ISBN 13: 9780500238875

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2011

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David Hockneys exuberant work is widely loved and widely praised, but he is also an incisive and original thinker on art. Based on a series of conversations between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, this book distills the essence of the artists lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.How does drawing make one see things clearer and clearer and clearer still? What significance do differing media, from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad, have for the images we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? And how can we fully enjoy the pleasures of just lookingat trees, or faces, or sunrises?These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations by both artist and interviewer on many other artistsVermeer, Tiepolo, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, and Monet among themand enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and East Yorkshire, his birthplace, to which he has now returned.

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Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of many books, including Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art, (with Philippe de Montebello), A Bigger Message, Modernists & Mavericks, A History of Pictures (with David Hockney), The Pursuit of Art and Spring Cannot be Cancelled, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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In this remarkable book, 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. These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along the way from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder make entertaining entries into the dialogue.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0500238871
• ISBN 13: 9780500238875
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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