A Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney

by Gayford, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780500238875
• ISBN10: 0500238871
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-24
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

In this remarkable book, a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along the way from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder make entertaining entries into the dialogue.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Turner with an i phone	p. 6
A Yorkshire paradise	p. 12
Drawing	p. 34
The trap of naturalism	p. 42
The problems of depiction	p. 54
A bigger and bigger picture	p. 64
Scale: a bigger studio	p. 75
Seeing more clearly	p. 82
Drawing on a telephone and in a computer	p. 88
Painting with memory	p. 101
Photography and drawing	p. 115
Caravaggio's camera	p. 126
Way out west: space exploration	p. 136
Cleaning Claude Page	p. 146
Movies and movingthrough the landscape	p. 156
Music and movement	p. 166
Van Gogh and the power of drawing	p. 182
Drawing on an iPad	p. 191
The power of images	p. 201
Theatre	p. 207
Lighting	p. 216
Nine screens on Woldgate	p. 229
David Hockney's life and work	p. 236
Further reading	p. 240
List of illustrations	p. 242
I Note on the text	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 245
Index	p. 246
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