David Hockney By David Hockney

Hockneys description of his life and work and his associations with other artists is supplemented with his drawings and paintings. One of the most influential British artists of the 20th century David Hockney was an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s. Contents: Introduction / Henry Geldzahler; 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 expressionists; the dilemma about the figure; The young contemporaries; The Richard Hamilton prize; Coming to terms with the figure; The writing on the picture Content and form; Walt Whitmans coce; Cavafy in the semi-Egyptian style; The tea paintings Early graphic work; The first trip to America Cavafys dignitaries; The young contemporaries; 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 Rakes 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 life; 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; 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; List of illustrations.