Prestel Publishing | ISBN:3791337181 | File Type: PDF, 200 pages | File size: 63.Mb | Sep. 1st, 2006
General Artists: David Hockney is perhaps the most widely celebrated artist of recent decades producing work in almost every medium painting drawing photography and printmaking as well as designing critically acclaimed sets for the stage David Hockney A Drawing Retrospective brings together for the first time an exciting selection of Hockney s work on paper and in sketchbooks presenting many drawings that have never been reproduced before including several from the artist s personal collection Spanning his entire career from 1954 to the present these images show how drawing lies at the very heart of Hockney s work a fundamental aspect of his graphic approach to every medium Among the pieces reproduced here are portraits landscapes still lifes and images of California and the other places Hockney has visited together with subjects that reveal more personal aspects of the artist s life Authoritative essays by Ulrich Luckhardt and a Melia curators of the first major retrospective of Hockney s drawings in fifteen years examine the artist s skills as a draftsman presenting a chronological view of his evolving style and technique and placing the drawings in the context of his work as a whole Biographical notes and a select bibliography are also included making David Hockney A Drawing Retrospective an invaluable source of reference as well as a beguiling and dazzling compendium of drawings by one of the most important artists of the twentieth century
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