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A bigger message : conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford; David Hockney is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is A bigger message : conversations with David Hockney about?
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.
Who reads A bigger message : conversations with David Hockney?
It is typically read by collectors seeking rare, out-of-print or specialist editions.
Common subject areas: rare and out-of-print works.
- Author
- Martin Gayford; David Hockney
- Publisher
- London ; New York: Thames & Hudson
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780500238875
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 4.42 / 5 (226 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14