David Hockney Author: [UK] Marco Livingstone Publisher: Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House

◎ Editor's Recommendation

◆It covers more than 60 years of Hockney’s artistic career, including many of his early paintings.

◆A best-seller overseas for decades, the first Hockney biography has been completely revised for the fourth time, telling the new ways the artist depicts the world in the forty years since the first edition was published in 1981.

◆The authoritative author and close friend of David Hockney, Marco Livingstone, has focused on the study of Hockney's art for decades, planned a large number of Hockney touring exhibitions, and wrote Hockney monographs such as "Looks Are Everything: David Hockney's Portraits and His Friends".

◆ Comprehensive coverage of the artist’s work in various media over more than 60 years, including oil painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, stage design, video, and various experiments with new technologies and forms of image making.

◆Embrace Hockney’s “late artistic period” and experience the artist’s artistic creation reactivated with new methods, new concepts, and skillful techniques derived from lifelong experiences.

◎ Introduction

"David Hockney" is a monograph on the art of British artist David Hockney. It comprehensively examines David Hockney's works from the perspective of art history, and deeply tells the artist's transformation in themes, methods, styles and techniques. It includes his art works in various media over the past sixty years, including oil paintings, sketches, prints, photography, stage design, video and various experiments with new technologies and new forms. The book contains 275 high-definition illustrations of David Hockney's works. The author of this book, Marco Livingstone, is a famous British art historian and one of David Hockney's close friends. The first edition of this book was published in 1981. It is the first monograph on David Hockney. This is the fourth revised edition of the book, which expands Hockney's extremely prolific and ever-changing artistic career in the past two decades. It is the most comprehensive review of this "most popular living artist".