David Hockney By David Hockney

Harry N Abrams Inc, 1977. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x1. 1977 Harry N. Abrams (New York), 8 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches tall green cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and reproductions of artwork, 312 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Small ink prior owner name to front pastedown. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very slightly creased dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP27~ [4.0P] Hockney's description of his life and work and his associations with other artists is supplemented with his drawings and paintings. One of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, David Hockney was an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s. Contents: Introduction / Henry Geldzahler; David Hockney / David Hockney; Birth, family and early apprenticeship; Bradford Grammar school, Bradford School of Art; THe first painting sold, Royal College of Art, 1957; Traditionalists v. abstract expressionists; tHe dilemma about the figure; The young contemporaries; The Richard Hamilton prize; Coming to terms with the figure; The writing on the picture, Content and form; Walt Whitman's coce; Cavafy in the semi-Egyptian style; The tea paintings, Early graphic work; The first trip to America, Cavafy's dignitaries; The young contemporaries; The emerging figures, The rub of love; The Italian journey The first life paintings; The marriage paintings; The curtain in the painting in the picture; The artist and his dealer, A Rake's Progress; Domestic scenes, Showers, Egypt, 1963; The first trip to California; the first car, the first studio, the first California paintings; California themes, Iowa, Swimming pools; Still lifes, A sad story, The cavafy etchings; Ubu Roi, Los Angeles realities; Realism turning into naturalism, The traps; The new academies, The source of light; Three splashes, Acrylic v. oil; The pains of popularity; FIgurative art and the new synthesis; Painting and photography, The camera can life; Back in England, 1967; And back again to California, 1968; THe most domestic scene, California; Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; Drawing; England 1968: the swinging London that never was; The traps of naturalism, Life studies from the nude; Grimm Fairy Tales, The painted garden; The Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition; tHe semi-naturalistic style and painting a relationship; A commissioned portrait; The end of a relationship; Coping with life: nine new paintings, Japan, 1971; Painting a relationship, How paintings sell; An unfinished painting; A new beginning: Paris, 1973, The Louvre show; A film without a star, New etching techniques; New drawings, new paintings and an opera design; List of illustrations.