This first full-length critical study explores the relationship between David Hockney's art and life, but focuses attention firmly on the work itself. Having won the gold medal and London's Royal College of Art when he left in 1962, Hockney has gone on to become the most widely acclaimed British artist born in this century. In recent years his work has been nowhere more celebrated than in the United States, which he has adopted as his primary home. When Hockney discovered Southern California in 1963, he realized that he was uniquely suited to capture pictorially the idyllic vision of carefree existence that Americans associated with that place and time. Many of his paintings of domestic scenes and intimate relationships throughout the 1960s and 1970s continued to reveal and define a way of life that is distinctly American.

David Hockney

Arts & Photography

LIVINGSTONE, Marco

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Holt, Rinehart and Winston; An Owl Book

David Hockney by Livingstone, Marco

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Examines the influential American painter's works up to the present time and features a complete cataloging of his works to date

R.B. Kitaj

Architecture

Thames&Hudson

Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake (b.1932) has been one of the best-known and widely loved artists of his generation. Blake's reputation from the outset was based on working across all media. Though primarily a painter, he has produced collages, drawings, watercolors, sculpture, prints, as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers, most notably his design for The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper album" in 1967. "Peter One-man Show" considers the artist's remarkable diversity, assessing his work across all media, from the 1950s to the present. Marco Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in the working-class existence that he led as a child and a teenager, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in Blake's bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s depicting children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinee at the cinema. From that moment, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments as subject matter, and as the source of formal solutions, for his paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named, and independently of the investigations into similar areas by other British, American and European artists. The radical nature of his collage paintings of 1959-62, in particular, made him a singularly influential figure within British Pop. Blake's parallel life as a voracious collector not only of other art but of all kinds of artifacts is touched on in the postscript as another manifestation of the concerns behind much of his art, particularly his collages, as an act of homage to the creativity of others. A separate chapter on his commercial work examines how Blake has been able to satisfy the demands of his clients while preserving his own artistic identity. Despite his forays into a range of more experimental media, Blake sees figurative painting as the core of his work, the trunk of a tree whose branches include excursions into Pop Art, collage, sculpture, graphics and printmaking. This book reflects the engagingly diverse and endlessly imaginative one-man show that constitutes the extraordinary and prolific work of Peter Blake.

Peter Blake /anglais

Individual Artists

Traces the life and career of the popular and successful artist and analyzes his contributions to contemporary British art.

David Hockney (The World of art library)

London (Thames and Hudson)

With 185 illustrations, 36 in colour . 16mo pp. 252 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)

1988 Thames &amp; Hudson trade paperback, Marco Livingstone (The Essential Duane Michals). The relationship between artist David Hockney and his work over the decades

David Hockney (World of Art)

Thames and Hudson,1988, c1987

The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s through to the more recent works that have contributed to Hockney's international reputation. These include his photocollages and highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera, not to mention his embrace of technology - namely the fax drawings and color laser prints - which show the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that has made the artist's work at once popular and enduring.

HOCKNEY, DAVID

Biographies & Memoirs

Intelligent, conscientious, sensitive. –Burlington Magazine
The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist’s career in the early 1960s through the more recent works that have contributed to Hockney’s international reputation. These include photocollages and highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera as well as his embrace of technology, which show the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that has made the artist’s work at once popular and enduring.
The fourth edition of this best-selling World of Art title includes updated information on Hockney’s work in the past twenty years, such as his foray into the world of digital art including large-scale iPad drawings and video. 271 illustrations

History & Criticism

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Pop Art: A Continuing History

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

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David Hockney

David Hockney

R.B. Kitaj

Peter Blake /anglais

David Hockney (The World of art library)

David Hockney

David Hockney (World of Art)

David Hockney (World of Art)

David Hockney (World of Art)

Pop Art: A Continuing History