David Hockney : images

New augmented edition

All the works created by David Hockney (1937-) have a single purpose: telling what means to be in the world, to see it, to move in it and to love it. For the contemporary painter, images are the ideal vehicle to communicate such feelings.

In order to capture this constant experimentation, this book presents over 300 works selected by Hockney himself. Divided into four chapters, it analyses Hockney's singular work, firstly addressing the problem of representing a world in perpetual movement on a fixed image, then the autobiographical nature of the work, the particular importance of the portraits of relatives, friends or intimates and, finally, the quest for space and light.