DAVID HOCKNEY PORTRAITS

Hockney, David; Shapiro, Barbara Stern; Howgate, Sarah; Livingstone, Marco; White, Edmund; Glazebrook, Mark

ISBN 10: 1855143623 / ISBN 13: 9781855143623

Published by National Portrait Gallery, London, 2006

About this Item

Signed first edition of this Hockney monograph published to coincide with the 2006 retrospective exhibition of his portrait work held at the National Portrait Gallery. With texts from curators Barbara Stern Shapiro and Sarah Howgate, and essays by Marco Livingstone, Edmund White, and Mark Glazebrook. 10.5'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial wrappers with French flaps. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. 256 pages. Signed by Hockney on the title page. Previous owner's blindstamp to prelim. Minor rubbing, spot of soil here and there. Overall, bright, clean, and sound.

Seller Inventory # 54788

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DAVID HOCKNEY PORTRAITS
• Publisher: National Portrait Gallery, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855143623
• ISBN 13: 9781855143623
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Near fine.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art & Photography

About this title

Synopsis

David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of My Father (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, and friends represent an intimate visual diary of the artist’s life. This beautifully illustrated book examines Hockney’s portraits in all media—painting, drawing, photography, and prints—and has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featured subjects include members of Hockney’s family and private circle, as well as portraits of such artists and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente, R. B. Kitaj, Helmet Newton, Lawrence Weschler, and W. H. Auden. The authors reveal how Hockney’s creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait from his battle with naturalism to his experimentation with and later rejection of photography, and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from life. Featuring more than 250 works from the past fifty years, David Hockney Portraits illustrates not only the fascinating range of Hockney’s creative practice but also the unique and cyclical nature of his artistic concerns.

About the Author

Sarah Howgate is Contemporary Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. Barbara Stern Shapiro is Curator for Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts. Mark Glazebrook is a writer and curator and organized David Hockney’s first retrospective in 1970. Edmund White is professor of the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University and the award-winning author of many books, including A Boy’s Own Story and Genet: A Biography. Marco Livingstone is an art critic, curator, and author of Hockney’s People.