Hockney: Printmaker
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Hockney: Printmaker Details
Celebrates Hockney's long and fruitful career as a printmaker, sixty years after he made his first printFeatures over 150 works; published to accompany an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonIn 1954, a sixteen-year-old student at the Bradford College of Art opted to study lithography as part of the National Diploma in Design. His first effort, a small self-portrait printed only in a handful of impressions, marks the beginning of one of the longest and most diverse careers in modern printmaking. By turns traditional and groundbreaking, over six decades David Hockney has created graphic works of great wit, beauty and intellectual complexity.Hockney, Printmaker features over 150 works, from etchings executed at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, to experiments with printed computer drawings some fifty years later, via portraits, pools, poetry, Xeroxes and investigations into multi-point perspective. Written by Richard Lloyd, head of prints at Christies, with contributions from Hockney's friends and associates, it explores the many achievements of Britain's greatest living practitioner of the graphic arts.The Hockney, Printmaker exhibition will be held at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London from 5th February -11th May, 2014.Richard Lloyd is Christies' International Head of Prints.
Reviews
Nice overview of David Hockney's printmaking career. This is a compact volume that showcases a wide range of Hockney prints being shown as part of a museum exhibition. The book begins with a nice essay and then moves on to the illustrated section which is divided into etchings, lithographs, and other. The etchings and lithographs are the bulk of the images and there are usually several to a page. I would have preferred full page illustrations for a better presentation but you still get a good idea of the imagery. The other section is mostly photocopy machine prints and then two inkjet prints closing out the book. Here I would have liked to have seen more inkjet prints because they reflect his current ipad art. The book is nicely printed and images are in color when they are supposed to be in color. For fans of Hockney or printmaking this is recommended.
