The largest-ever display of Hockney’s paper-based works
British artist David Hockney is renowned for his distinctive paintings, mostly portraiture and landscape, but also for his approach to works on paper and printmaking, which mirrors the vibrancy and diligent indexing seen in his broader body of work. Hockney’s prints often showcase a dynamic interplay of color, form and perspective, reflecting his keen eye for visual storytelling of intimate elements of his own life. Throughout his career he has experimented with various printmaking techniques, including etching, lithography, screenprinting and more recently iPads, each method revealing his diligence in manipulating the medium—without ever experiencing, in his own words, “a feeling of failure.” Like much of his oeuvre, Hockney’s prints draw from extensive art historical study of the optical devices of Old Master paintings. This volume gathers Hockey’s prints and other works on paper from his over six decades of output. His visual experiments, always surprising in their outcomes, suggest a rich interior and exterior life, captured in telling bits and fragments, suggesting a montage of quotidian scenes. The title, Paper Trails, echoes Peter Bürger’s writings on visual art’s relationship with the “praxis of life.” David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most celebrated British contemporary artists. Hockney studied at the Bradford School of Art and the Royal College of Art with R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones and Derek Boshier. Graduating with a gold medal, he became a leading figure in Pop art. His work encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and stage design.
"The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven)–5 March," 'David Hockney: Paper Trails'
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More than 100 pieces are included in the tome, ranging from lithographs to iPad drawings, and remind us that Hockney's exceptional abilities transcend medium—and make an excellent addition to our own libraries.
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At 89 years old, David Hockney remains one of the most important—and beloved—figurative artists of the 20th or 21st centuries. A painter’s painter equally known for his exquisite draftsmanship in drawings, watercolors and prints—as proven by Skira new release David Hockney: Paper Trails—he is also a notoriously flexible, utopian embracer of new technologies. For example Matelot Kevin Druez 2 is a computer drawing from 2009. “Everything in a Hockney work circles back to people,” Russell Tovey writes. “In Hockney’s art, whatever his theme, however he renders his image, constructed in whatever material or process he is currently exploring, his desire to connect to us the audience is fundamental. And what a privilege it is, to be alive at the same time as Hockney. When an artist as authentic as him remains continuously engaged in the challenge of trying to connect to as many people as possible, it inspires the rest of us with his storytelling vision. If there is one thing we can take away from a Hockney exhibition and indeed every singular Hockney image, it is quite simply, love. Through this repetition, he constructs an archive that underscores unity, weaving an amorous thread connecting all his artworks regardless of the medium. This is an artist brimming with love, for his friends, for the world around him, for things, for life, for love itself.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $95 ISBN: 9788857252728 PUBLISHER: SKIRA AVAILABLE: 10/1/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
The largest-ever display of Hockney’s paper-based works
British artist David Hockney is renowned for his distinctive paintings, mostly portraiture and landscape, but also for his approach to works on paper and printmaking, which mirrors the vibrancy and diligent indexing seen in his broader body of work. Hockney’s prints often showcase a dynamic interplay of color, form and perspective, reflecting his keen eye for visual storytelling of intimate elements of his own life. Throughout his career he has experimented with various printmaking techniques, including etching, lithography, screenprinting and more recently iPads, each method revealing his diligence in manipulating the medium—without ever experiencing, in his own words, “a feeling of failure.” Like much of his oeuvre, Hockney’s prints draw from extensive art historical study of the optical devices of Old Master paintings.
This volume gathers Hockey’s prints and other works on paper from his over six decades of output. His visual experiments, always surprising in their outcomes, suggest a rich interior and exterior life, captured in telling bits and fragments, suggesting a montage of quotidian scenes. The title, Paper Trails, echoes Peter Bürger’s writings on visual art’s relationship with the “praxis of life.”
David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most celebrated British contemporary artists. Hockney studied at the Bradford School of Art and the Royal College of Art with R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones and Derek Boshier. Graduating with a gold medal, he became a leading figure in Pop art. His work encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and stage design.
