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By Christopher Simon Sykes

during this interesting and pleasing moment quantity, Christopher Sykes explores the existence and paintings of Britain's preferred dwelling artist.

David Hockney's occupation has spanned and epitomised the paintings hobbies of the prior 5 a long time. quantity 1 lined his adolescence: his precocious fulfillment at Bradford paintings university and the Swinging 60s in London, the place he befriended some of the iconic cultural figures of the new release. determining up Hockney's tale in 1975, this quantity reveals him flitting among Notting Hill and California, the place he took idea for the swimming pool sequence of work; developing the acclaimed set designs for operas around the globe; and embracing rising applied sciences – the digicam and fax desktop within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s, and so much lately the iPad. Hockney's boundless strength extends to his own existence too, and this quantity illuminates the glamorous circles he moved in, in addition to his occasionally turbulent relationships.

With unheard of entry to Hockney's work, notebooks, diaries and the fellow himself, this moment quantity keeps the full of life and revelatory account of an acclaimed artist and a unprecedented man.

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