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A History of Pictures by David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Category: Art
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a s ...Show more
A History of Pictures : From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
Category: Art
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a ...Show more
A History of Pictures - From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
Category: Art
A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford, he explores the many ways that artists have pictured the world, sharing sparkling insights and ideas that will delight every art lover and art maker. Readers who t ...Show more
A History of Pictures for Children by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
Category: Education
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children's edition of A History of Pictures is told through conversations b ...Show more
A Yorkshire Sketchbook by David Hockney
Category: Art
A sketchbook that captures the changing light and fleeting effects of the weather.
David Hockney: Normandy Portraits by David Hockney (Artist)
Category: Art
David Hockney: Normandy Portraits accompanies a major exhibition on David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It reveals new portraits painted in Hockney's Normandy Studio between 2020 and 2022. David Hockney: Normandy Portraits illustrates around 40 acrylic on canvas works painted by Hock ...Show more
David Hockney: Paper Trails by David Hockney (Artist); Shai Baitel (Editor)
Category: Art
The largest-ever display of Hockney's paper-based works British artist David Hockney is renowned for his distinctive paintings, mostly portraiture and landscape, but also for his approach to works on paper and printmaking, which mirrors the vibrancy and diligent indexing seen in his broader body of wor ...Show more
David Hockney: the Arrival of Spring in Normandy 2020 by David Hockney (Artist)
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An uplifting celebration of spring and the power of art against lockdown: Hockney's new iPad drawings, in an intimate sketchbook format At the beginning of 2020, just as global COVID-19 restrictions were coming into force, David Hockney was at his new house, studio and garden in Normandy. From there, h ...Show more
David Hockney's Dog Days by David Hockney
Category: Art
The perfect gift for Hockney fans and dog lovers everywhere, "David Hockney's Dog Days", now in a gift edition, is an album devoted to two of the artist's closest friends, his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie. This beautiful and engaging book includes almost all of Hockney's paintings and drawings of his ...Show more
Hockney's Pictures by David Hockney
Category: Art
This much acclaimed book, newly available in paperback, is the definitive retrospective of the most popular serious artist in the world today, covering all media over almost fifty years. Presented thematically to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, p ...Show more
Hockney's Pictures by David Hockney
Category: Art | Series: November of Draft Layout Ser.
A new edition of a book that has sold 150,000 copies worldwide: the definitive retrospective of one of the world's most popular and acclaimed artists. 'A compelling narrative of the workings of a curious, intelligent, visually inventive mind at work' - Art Quarterly 'From between the covers springs all ...Show more
Love Life: David Hockney Drawings 1963-1977 by DAVID HOCKNEY
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
David Hockney is one of the greatest draughtsmen of all time, and his drawings of the 1960s and 1970s are among his finest works. This selection of 41 drawings, both well-known and unfamiliar, demonstrates how his love of life is expressed through his extraordinary ability to closely observe and transla ...Show more