David Hockney - moving focus : works from the Tate Collection / edited by Helen Little.
Publisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2021Description: 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0047693897ISBN: 9781849767729 (hbk.) :Other title: Moving focusSubject(s): Hockney, David -- Catalogs | Hockney, David -- Criticism and interpretation | Art and Design
| Fine arts: treatments & subjects | Individual artists, art monographs | Exhibition catalogues & specific collectionsDDC classification: 759.2 LOC classification: ND497.H6 | A4 2021Summary: A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney. A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney. David Hockney is Britain's most important living artist, one who is constantly moving into new terrain and never fails to capture a wide public imagination. This pioneering new publication positions the artist's seminal work within a wide cultural context, charting Hockney's journey through the ways he has interrogated the nature of looking and representation from his days as a promising student to his place as one of the greatest artists working today. Featuring contributions by some of the most exciting voices in the worlds of art, design, literature and performance, it offers an essential overview of David Hockney's career, exploring the depth of his influence, and how his art continues to shape modern culture. Edited by Helen Little, with contributions by Catherine Cusset, Rineke Dijkstra, Frank Gehry, Jann Haworth, Allen Jones, Owen Jones, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Andrew McMillan, Richard Morphet, David Oxtoby, Eddie Peake, Walter Pfeiffer, Christina Quarles, Bruno Ravella, Ed Ruscha, Gregory Salter, Wayne Sleep, Ali Smith, Christine Strueli and Russell Tovey.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney.
David Hockney is Britain's most important living artist, one who is constantly moving into new terrain and never fails to capture a wide public imagination. This pioneering new publication positions the artist's seminal work within a wide cultural context, charting Hockney's journey through the ways he has interrogated the nature of looking and representation from his days as a promising student to his place as one of the greatest artists working today.
Featuring contributions by some of the most exciting voices in the worlds of art, design, literature and performance, it offers an essential overview of David Hockney's career, exploring the depth of his influence, and how his art continues to shape modern culture.
Edited by Helen Little, with contributions by Catherine Cusset, Rineke Dijkstra, Frank Gehry, Jann Haworth, Allen Jones, Owen Jones, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Andrew McMillan, Richard Morphet, David Oxtoby, Eddie Peake, Walter Pfeiffer, Christina Quarles, Bruno Ravella, Ed Ruscha, Gregory Salter, Wayne Sleep, Ali Smith, Christine Strueli and Russell Tovey.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney. A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney. David Hockney is Britain's most important living artist, one who is constantly moving into new terrain and never fails to capture a wide public imagination. This pioneering new publication positions the artist's seminal work within a wide cultural context, charting Hockney's journey through the ways he has interrogated the nature of looking and representation from his days as a promising student to his place as one of the greatest artists working today. Featuring contributions by some of the most exciting voices in the worlds of art, design, literature and performance, it offers an essential overview of David Hockney's career, exploring the depth of his influence, and how his art continues to shape modern culture. Edited by Helen Little, with contributions by Catherine Cusset, Rineke Dijkstra, Frank Gehry, Jann Haworth, Allen Jones, Owen Jones, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Andrew McMillan, Richard Morphet, David Oxtoby, Eddie Peake, Walter Pfeiffer, Christina Quarles, Bruno Ravella, Ed Ruscha, Gregory Salter, Wayne Sleep, Ali Smith, Christine Strueli and Russell Tovey.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 11)
- The Road to the Studio: David Hockney and the Tate (p. 13)
- David Hockney and Queer History in the 1960s (p. 27)
- The Past was Another Country (p. 38)
- A 6 Looking for His 9 (p. 42)
- The Third Love Painting (p. 46)
- Subject and Object (p. 54)
- A Cat Can Look at a king, in the American Style (p. 58)
- Weshall Overcome (p. 64)
- From London to La (p. 76)
- Physique Pictorial (p. 80)
- Man in Shower in Beverly Hills (p. 84)
- A Bigger Splash (p. 92)
- Thoughts from the Dull Village (p. 96)
- A Boy's Dream (p. 104)
- Playing and Listening (p. 132)
- Every Picture Tells a Story (p. 136)
- Moving Focus (p. 140)
- The Artist's Mother (p. 172)
- Alondon Audience (p. 178)
- The Wave (p. 188)
- A Bigger Trees (p. 196)
- In the Studio (p. 200)
- Chronology (p. 208)
- Notes (p. 214)
- List of works (p. 216)
- Index (p. 220)
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