Oral history interview with David Hockney
odd: label: General
content: Unedited master version filmed in ten twenty minute segments. Paul Karlstom, Archives of American Art's West Coast Regional Director, edited the master to a 60 minute version, labeled "Selections."
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hockney, David
label: Interviewer
content: Weschler, Lawrence
topic: label: Occupation
content: Collagists -- California
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- California
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- England
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
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content: Photographers -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Photocollage
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hockney, David
label: Interviewer
content: Weschler, Lawrence
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: David Hockney (1937- ) is an English-born painter, photographer, and photocollagist; he has experimented in many other mediums including the iPad. He lives in England and Califoria.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lawrence Weschler (1952- ) is an author in New York and Los Angeles. He was a New Yorker staff writer for over 20 years (1981-2002). At the time of this interview he had recently published Cameraworks, a study of Hockney's photocollages.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Videocassettes (U-matic) (Master: 10 videocassettes (U-matic) (20 min. each) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. + typescript summary (15 p.))
label: Extent
content: 4 Videocassettes (U-matic) (Duplicate (3 hrs. 20 min.), sd., col., 3/4 in.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Videocassettes (U-matic) (Edited version:"Selections": 1 videocassette (60 min.) (U-Matic), sd., col., 3/4 in.)
label: Extent
content: 2 Videocassettes (VHS) (Edited version: "Selections": 2 videocassettes (60 min.) (VHS), sd., col., 1/2 in.)
label: Extent
content: 4 Sound cassettes (Audio only version , analog)
label: Extent
content: 58 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 September 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hockne84
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Videocassettes (u-matic)
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content: Videocassettes (vhs)
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
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content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This interview was audited and edited by Benji de la Piedra in 2025.
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content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with David Hockney conducted 1984 Sept. 3, by Lawrence Weschler, for the Archives of American Art at Hockney's home and studio, Los Angeles, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hockney discusses his work with photography, and more recently, painting. Topics covered include perspective, the depiction of the passage of time in an art work, Christianity, the disintegration of the canvas' edge, and Hockney's rediscovery of the objectives of cubism, and the combining of western theories of cubism with the eastern philosophy used in Chinese landscape painting on scrolls.