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David Hockney : a bigger picture / Marco Livingstone; Edith Devaney; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.; Museum Ludwig - New York : Abrams , 2012 - 301 p. : illus. ; 31 cm

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "David Hockney RA: a bigger picture" held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 Jan.-9 Apr. 2012, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 14 May-30 Sept. 2012, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 27 Oct. 2012-4 Feb. 2013.

President's foreword -- Preface / David Hockney -- The road less travelled / Marco Livingstone -- The spirit of place: a certain road to happiness / Margaret Drabble -- Seeing with memory: Hockney and the masters / Tim Barringer -- David Hockney and Claude Lorrain: the sermon on the mount / Xavier F. Salomon -- David Hockney: the technology of art / Martin Gayford -- Catalogue plates -- David Hockney: a chronology / Edith Devaney

Assembles a collection of the painter's oversized landscape paintings inspired by the English countryside, along with essays that discuss his life, creative process, influences, and use of technology in his work.


English

ISBN: 9781419702808

Subjects--Personal Names:
Hockney, David ----Exhibition

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Royal Academy of Arts (England)
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

LC Class. No.: HQ1063.6 / M367 2008

Dewey Class. No.: REF 740.92 HOC