David Hockney by James Cahill - ISBN: 9781913947422
Hardcover
British icon, American dream, Hockney’s art mirrors life’s vibrant journey.

David Hockney

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  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    9 August 2022

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Summary

The latest addition to the ‘Lives of the Artists’ series: highly readable short biographies of the world’s greatest artists.

David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portaitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s and …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781913947422
ISBN-10:1913947424
Author:James Cahill
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Laurence King Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:9 August 2022
Weight:240g
Dimensions:184mm x 122mm x 16mm
Series:Lives of the Artists
About The Author

James Cahill

James Cahill is a writer and academic based in London. He is currently a Research Fellow at King’s College London, where his research focuses on the modern artistic legacy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. His writing has appeared in publications including Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. His first novel, Tiepolo Blue, will be published in summer 2022 in the UK by Sceptre.

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