David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385535908)

In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Simon Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist.

David Hockney is one of the most influential and best-loved artists of the twentieth century. His career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the past five decades. Picking up Hockney's story in 1975, this book finds him flitting between Notting Hill and California, where he took inspiration for the swimming pool series of paintings; creating acclaimed set designs for operas around the world; and embracing emerging technologies--the Polaroid camera and fax machine in the seventies and eighties and, most recently, the iPad. Hockney's boundless energy extends to his personal life too, and this volume illuminates the glamorous circles he moves in, as well as his sometimes turbulent relationships.

Christopher Simon Sykes has been granted exclusive and unprecedented access to Hockney's paintings, notebooks, and diaries, and a great number of them are reproduced here. Featuring interviews with family, friends, and Hockney himself, this is a lively and revelatory account of an acclaimed artist and an extraordinary man.

Author: Christopher Simon Sykes
ISBN-10: 0385535902
ISBN-13: 9780385535908
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2014
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.06w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2014 pg. 65
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014
Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 16
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2014
Library Journal 06/15/2014