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A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
Category: Art
David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one ...Show more
A Bigger Message - Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
Category: Art
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. Thes ...Show more
A History of Pictures by David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Category: Art
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a s ...Show more
A History of Pictures - From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
Category: Art
A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford, he explores the many ways that artists have pictured the world, sharing sparkling insights and ideas that will delight every art lover and art maker. Readers who t ...Show more
A History of Pictures for Children by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
Category: Education
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children's edition of A History of Pictures is told through conversations b ...Show more
Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction by MARTIN GAYFORD
Category: Art
David Hockney is the best known and most widely admired painter in the world. This vibrant catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, as well as the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Throughout his long career, David Hockney has insis ...Show more
Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 by David Dawson, Martin Gayford
Category: Art
Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud's letters alongside insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations of the artist's personality and creative practice. The young Lucian Freud was described by his friend Stephen Spender as 'totally alive, like something not entirely human, a leprechaun, a ...Show more
Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford, Martin Gayford
Category: Art
A sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon's acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time. Larger-than-life British artist Lucian Freud enjoyed a career lasting over seven decades. He worked almost until the day he died, when he left a portrait of friend and studio assistant David ...Show more
Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks by Martin Gayford
Category: Art
Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist artists. Working only from life, he once claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't there in front of me.' This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketche ...Show more
Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
Category: Biography
A beautifully produced paperback edition of the literary art book hailed as one of the best and most continually fascinating books about painting in recent memory. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologica ...Show more
Man with a Blue Scarf - On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
Category: Art
"An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art." -ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of his time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayfor ...Show more
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
Category: Biography
'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely belie ...Show more