David Hockney
Subtitle: portraits
By: Sarah Howgate, Barbara Stern Shapiro ; with essays by Mark Glazebrook, Marco Livingstone and Edmund White.
Contributors: Howgate, Sarah.; Shapiro, Barbara Stern.; Glazebrook, Mark.; Livingstone, Marco.; White, Edmund, 1940-; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Hockney, David -- Exhibitions; Hockney, David -- Friends and associates -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of my Father (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, and friends represent an intimate visual diary of the artist's life." "This illustrated book examines Hockney's portraits in all media - painting, drawing, photographs, and prints - and has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featured subjects include members of Hockney's family and private circle, as well as portraits of such artists and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj, Helmut Newton, Lawrence Weschler, and W.H. Auden. The authors reveal how Hockney's creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait work: from his battle with naturalism to his experimentation with and later rejection of photography, and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from life in oil." "Featuring more than 250 works from the past fifty years, David Hockney Portraits illustrates not only the fascinating range of Hockney's creative practice but also the unique and cyclical nature of his artistic concerns."--Jacket.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held Feb. 26-May 14, 2006 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Jun. 11-Sept. 4, 2006 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Oct. 12, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007 at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-199) and index.