David Hockney: A retrospective

by Henry Geldzahler, Christopher Knight, R.B. Kitaj

The English artist David Hockney is known world-wide for his colorful and classically composed images of sunshine, swimming pools, and the good life in California, for his prolific and innovative theater designs, and for his frank depictions of homosexual life and domesticity in which, long before the era of gay liberation, he unabashedly proclaimed his own sexual identity. Kenneth Silver, Professor of Art History at New York University, charts Hockney's multifaceted career from his early work of the 1960s, poised between abstraction and pop art's revival of figuration, to his most recent excursions into the high-tech world of computers and new print technologies.Also available in the Rizzoli ArtWillem de Kooning by David CateforisEdward Hopper by Karal Ann MarlingJasper Johns by Roberta BernsteinFrida Kahlo by Hayden HerreraRoy Lichtenstein by Diane WaldmanHenri Matisse by Roger BenjaminJoan Miró by Elizabeth HigdonGeorgia O'Keeffe by Barbara Buhler LynesPablo Picasso by Josephine WithersAndy Warhol by Jonathan Katzand many others.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Biography

288 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1988

Reviews

[Nolan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Huge coffee table book from the 80s you can find for $10 if you're interested. After checking this out from the college library and having it out in the living room for a month, I am. Hockney's images can be so flat on the surface but have so much depth, at least his most renowned paintings. I love that later in life he obsessively photographed purely to solve "the problem" of photography (volume). I think he succeeded although mostly in a formal way. I might feel differently seeing those collages in person since I could see them having a bigger emotional impact at full-size. The included essays are great too.

[Nivedita · Rating 5 out of 5]

if you enjoy David Hockney's art... this book will take you a step further and make you fall in love with it....

[patty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thirty year retrospective published in 1988. Love the swimming pools!