David Hockney has been delighting and challenging audiences for sixty years and celebrated artworks from across his career are at the centre of Tate's outstanding collection. This book features over a hundred of these paintings, prints, drawings and photographs, helping the reader to understand the artist's changing sources of inspiration and, crucially, where his work is going. Beginning in the 1950s when he made his first steps to becoming a modern artist, the publication charts Hockney's ground-breaking images of the early 1960s through to his famous depictions of the Los Angeles cityscape. It also looks at Hockney's much-loved portraits from the 1970s and his discovery of a new way of dealing with time, space and perspective he called 'Moving Focus', as well as more recent landscapes and digital images that demonstrate his lifelong preoccupation with pictorial space and how we look at and experience the world around us.
As well as providing a unique overview of Hockney's prolific range and activity, this book features new texts and responses to his work by established and emerging voices from the worlds of art, design, literature and performance. Breathing new life into the nexus of Tate's collection, it speaks to the artist's refusal to conform during periods of uncertainty and polarization as he traversed the boundaries of class, sexuality and high art and how his work still surprises, unsettles and addresses younger generations of viewers.
David Hockney est l'un des artistes anglais les plus influents des XXe et XXIe siècles, au travers du pop art puis du courant de l'hyperréalisme, où se mêlent peinture aux couleurs acidulées et précision photographique. Depuis 2019, le peintre a quitté la Californie pour s'installer en Normandie.
Une grande exposition internationale consacrée à l'oeuvre de l'artiste contemporain, peintre, graveur, photographe et théoricien de l'art est réalisée par la ville d'Aix-en-Provence au musée Granet, et celle de Londres aux musées nationaux britanniques de la Tate.
Les oeuvres, présentées à travers une approche chronologique, sont conservées en collection publique et couvrent l'ensemble de sa carrière. Première étape d'une itinérance européenne, cette exposition sera à l'affiche en Italie et en Autriche après l'Angleterre et la France.
