Martin Gayford
David Hockneyâ€™s exuberant work is widely loved and widely praised, but he is also an incisive and original thinker on art. Based on a series of conversations between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, this book distills the essence of the artistâ€™s lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.,How does drawing make one â€œsee things clearer and clearer and clearer stillâ€? What significance do differing media, from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad, have for the images we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? And how can we fully enjoy the pleasures of just lookingâ€”at trees, or faces, or sunrises?,These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations by both artist and interviewer on many other artistsâ€”Vermeer, Tiepolo, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, and Monet among themâ€”and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and East Yorkshire, his birthplace, to which he has now returned.
Art,Nonfiction,Biography,Biography Memoir,Art,Art History
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney