Gayford, Martin
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
- ISBN 13:
- 9780500296608
- author:
- Gayford, Martin
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 280
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 centimetres (0.46 kg
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Individual Artist,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy. On turning eighty, he sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay.
The enforced isolation became an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art, as seen in this uplifting manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. Based on new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator, the book is illustrated by a selection of Hockney's new, unpublished iPad drawings and paintings alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others.
Through these exchanges, we see how Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for sixty years yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his surroundings and by the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees.
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