Spring Cannot be Cancelled

Martin Gayford, David Hockney

ISBN 10: 050029660X / ISBN 13: 9780500296608

Published by Thames and Hudson Ltd, GB, 2022

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A burst of springtime joy' Daily Telegraph 'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated' Guardian David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy An uplifting manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire, Spring Cannot be Cancelled draws on a wealth of conversations and correspondence between the late David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, in which the artist reflects upon life as he self-isolates in rural France. Their exchanges span nature, food, art, opera, fairy tales and more, and are illustrated by a selection of Hockney's Normandy iPad drawings and paintings alongside works by other artists, including van Gogh, Monet and Bruegel. We see how Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of wonder, still utterly absorbed by the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees. He has much to teach us, not only about how to see. but about how to live.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spring Cannot be Cancelled
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050029660X
• ISBN 13: 9780500296608
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 460 grams

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Synopsis

An unanticipated relocation, Studio work, French life in a bohemian style: La vie franaise, Time and lines, A joyous Christmas and an unexpected New Year, Locked down in paradise, A home for an artist and a painter's garden, The sky, the sky!, Rich blacks and softer greens, Multiple smaller splashes, Everything in motion, Wavy lines and harmonious spaces, Lost (and found) in translation, Picasso, Proust, and visuals, Being present, Full moon in Normandy