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Title: Life of David Hockney
Author: CUSSET CATHERINE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2020
Imprint: ARCADIA BOOKS, LONDON
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
“Catherine Cusset’s
book caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself.†— David Hockney
With
clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate,
moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born
in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to
become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of
Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense
of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be
decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not
sufficiently “contemporary†to be valued. Trips to New York and
California—where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming
pools—introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that
would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic.
A compelling hybrid of novel and
biography, Life of David Hockney offers an insightful overview
of a painter whose art is as accessible as it is compelling, and whose passion
to create has never been deterred by heartbreak or illness or loss.
“Reading Life of David Hockney somehow
mimics the experience of looking at a painting by the artist…vivid…compelling.†— The Economist
“Vivid
scenes…combine with loving descriptions of Hockney’s canvases to create an
engaging chronicle.†— The New Yorker
“As sunny as the poolside California that
was the artist’s longtime muse…an affirming vision of a restless talent
propelled by optimism and chance…Cusset captures the psyche of a painter.â€
New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 9781911350804
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm