David Hockney / by David Hockney ; edited by Nikos Stangos ; introductory essay by Henry Geldzahler

Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Contents; David Hockney / David Hockney -- Birth, family and early apprenticeship -- Bradford Grammar School -- Bradford School of Art -- The first painting sold -- Royal College of Art, 1957 -- Traditionalists v. abstract expressionist -- The dilemma about the figure -- The Young Contemporaries, 1961 -- The Richard Hamilton prize -- Coming to terms with the figure -- The writing on the picture -- Content and form -- Walt Whitman's code -- Cavafy in the semi-Egyptian style -- The tea paintings -- Early graphic work -- The first trip to America; Cavafy's dignitaries -- The Young Contemporaries, 1962 -- The emerging figures -- 'The rub of love' -- The Italian journey -- The first life paintings -- The marriage paintings -- The curtain in the painting in the picture -- The artist and his dealer -- A Rake's progress -- Domestic scenes -- Showers -- Egypt, 1963 -- The first trip to California -- The first car, the first studio, the first California paintings -- California themes -- Iowa -- Swimming pools -- Still lifes -- A sad story -- The Cavafy etchings -- Ubu Roi -- Los Angeles realities -- Realism turning into naturalism -- The traps -- The new academies -- The source of light -- Three splashes -- Acrylic v. oil -- The pains of popularity -- Figurative art and the new synthesis -- Painting and photography -- The camera can lie -- Back in England, 1967 -- And back again to California, 1968 -- The most domestic scene, California -- Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy -- Drawing -- England 1968: the swinging London that never was -- The traps of naturalism -- Life studies from the nude -- Grimm Fairy Tales -- The painted garden -- The Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition, 1970 -- The semi-naturalistic style and painting a relationship -- A commissioned portrait -- The end of a relationship -- Coping with life: nine new paintings -- Japan, 1971 -- Painting a relationship -- How paintings sell -- An unfinished painting -- A new beginning: Paris, 1973 -- The Louvre show -- A film without a star -- New etching techniques -- New drawings, new paintings and an opera design. Subjects; Hockney, David. Hockney, David (English painter, printmaker, and photographer, born 1937). Hockney, David (English painter, printmaker, and photographer, born 1937) Criticism and interpretation. Artists England ; Biography. Painters, British 20th century ; Biography. Printmakers, British 20th century ; Biography. Photographers, British 20th century ; Biography. 1 Kg.…