David Hockney - Moving Focus

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A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain' s most important artists: David Hockney. Coinciding with the artist' s eighty-fifth birthday, this pioneering new publication is an essential overview of David Hockney' s career. Contributions by Owen Jones, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Ali Smith, Russell Tovey and others, position Hockney within a wide cultural context, charting his journey from his days as a promising student to his place as one of the greatest artists working today. Hockney' s work has delighted and challenged audiences for sixty years, and celebrated artworks from throughout his career are at the centre of Tate' s outstanding collection. This book features over one hundred of these paintings, prints, drawings and photographs. Seen together, they demonstrate the artist' s changing sources of inspiration and, crucially, the direction in which his work continues to move. Beginning in the 1950s when he made his first steps to becoming a modern artist, David Hockney: Moving Focus includes Hockney' s famous depictions of the Los Angeles cityscape, his much-loved portraits from the 1970s, as well as more recent landscapes and digital images that reflect his ever-present concern with time, space and perspective. David Hockney: Moving Focus provides an unrivalled overview of Hockney' s prolific range and activity. Breathing new life into the nexus of Tate' s collection, it reveals how his work can still surprise and unsettle younger generations of viewers today.