A Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney

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The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity.

David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he was also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this now classic book, filled with anecdote, insight, passion and wit, Hockney reveals the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Compiled from a decade and a half of conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, it reflects a period in which Hockney relocated from Los Angeles to his native East Yorkshire. Their exchanges communicate the immense delight and inspiration that Hockney finds in the changing seasons and natural splendours of this sparsely inhabited corner of England - a delight that is, in the words of Margaret Drabble, 'an invitation to us all to look better, see better, enjoy more'.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780500298350
Published: April 2025

Number of pages: 304
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd