Playful, keen eyed, ever curious, David Hockney is one of our greatest contemporary artists. Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, and tied to its major 2025 exhibition,\u00a0David Hockney<\/i>\u00a0charts an extraordinarily creative life through images and text in one large-format landscape book.<\/p>\n
The artworks chosen reflect Hockney\u2019s key themes and preoccupations over the decades, from his early life in Bradford and London through the California era and his later years in Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Normandy, France. Several of the chapters are arranged thematically, ranging from still life and portraits to his much-loved landscapes and stunning designs for opera. A final chapter explores Hockney\u2019s engagement with digital art, particularly on the iPad. Throughout, we see the endless inventiveness, curiosity and creativity that have characterized Hockney\u2019s work over eight decades.<\/p>\n
To give context to Hockney\u2019s art, this definitive survey features a selection of archival photographs and eye-catching artworks allied to expertly written text by pre-eminent curatorial experts, art historians and critics, including Sir Norman Rosenthal and Sir Simon Schama.<\/p>\n
Compiled with the full involvement of David Hockney and his studio, and with a large-scale landscape format with a selection of gatefolds that enables the reader to revel in the art, this is the most important book on Hockney\u2019s entire career to date and will appeal to the many fans of the artist\u2019s work across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Playful, keen eyed, ever curious, David Hockney is one of our greatest contemporary artists. Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, and tied to its major 2025 exhibition,\u00a0David Hockney\u00a0charts an extraordinarily creative life through images and text in one large-format landscape book. The artworks chosen reflect Hockney\u2019s key themes and preoccupations over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78909,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[707],"product_tag":[],"product_group":[655],"product_general_cat":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78914","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"pa_material-paper","8":"product_group--en","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n