Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy - Brossura

Gayford, Martin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 050029660X ISBN 13: 9780500296608

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2022

Riassunto

A Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy

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Informazioni sull?autore

Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of many books, including Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art, (with Philippe de Montebello), A Bigger Message, Modernists & Mavericks, A History of Pictures (with David Hockney), The Pursuit of Art and Spring Cannot be Cancelled, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy

On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.

Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney's new, unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others.

We see how Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for sixty years, yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four acres of northern France and 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.

With 142 illustrations in colour

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 050029660X
• ISBN 13: 9780500296608
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 280
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