David Hockney
Autor(a) de Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
About the Author
David Hockney was born in England in 1937 and studied at the Royal College of Art. He achieved international acclaim by his mid-twenties as part of the pop art movement and has gone on to become one of the best known artists of his generation. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Obras por David Hockney
David Hockney : a retrospective [cat. exp., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb 4-April 24, 1988; Metropolitan Museum… (1988) — “The Last Word” — 171 exemplares
David Hockney [cat. exp., Tate Britain 2017, Centre Georges Pompidou 2017, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017-2018] (2017) — Artist — 68 exemplares
The Blue Guitar: Etchings by David Hockney Who Was Inspired by Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired by Pablo Picasso (1977) 32 exemplares
David Hockney: the East Yorkshire landscape [cat. exp., L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California, Feb. 9-Mar. 24, 2007] (2007) 17 exemplares
David Hockney: Some Very New Paintings [cat. exp., André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 7 Jan-13 Feb 1993] (1993) 12 exemplares
David Hockney: espace, paysage: [cat. exp., Galerie Sud, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 27 jan -26 avril 1999] (1999) 10 exemplares
David Hockney : new work : paintings, gouaches, drawings, photo collages [cat. exp., André Emmerich Gallery, New York,… (1984) 10 exemplares
David Hockney : paintings and drawings : [cat. exp., Musee des arts decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, 11 oct -9 dec 1974] (1974) 5 exemplares
Looking at landscape, being in landscape : September 15-October 24, 1998, L. A. Louver (1998) 5 exemplares
Una historia de las imágenes: De la caverna a la pantalla del ordenador (El Ojo del Tiempo) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 5 exemplares
David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]...Continued (2 Copies) (2018) 4 exemplares
David Hockney : paintings of the early 1960's 3 exemplares
David Hockney prints : a touring exhibition from the collection of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, opening… (1976) 3 exemplares
The artist's eye : looking at pictures in a book at the National Gallery, 1 July-31 Aug. 1981 (1981) 3 exemplares
David Hockney, 23 lithographs, 1978-1980 3 exemplares
David Hockney by David Hockney 3 exemplares
David Hockney: Palau de la Virreina [exposicion: 8 de gener- 28 de febrer, 1993] (1992) 3 exemplares
David Hockney 23 Lithographs 1978-1980 2 exemplares
David Hockney in America 2 exemplares
Hockney in California = Deivido Hokkuni ten 2 exemplares
David Hockney Recent Paintings 2 exemplares
David Hockney Some Drawings of Family, Friends, and best friends, 1993-1994 Gallery Salts Mill, Saltaire, Yorkshire,… (1994) 2 exemplares
David Hockney dialogue avec Picasso : Paris, Musée Picasso, 10 février-3 mai 1999 (1999) 2 exemplares
David Hockney : December 5, 1990 to January 5, 1991 2 exemplares
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth [1988 documentary] (1988) — Himself — 2 exemplares
Baharın gelişi, 1 exemplar
Some Very Large New Paintings with Twenty-Five Dogs Upstairs and Some Drawings of Friends. 1 exemplar
David Hockney, moving focus prints : Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Tate Gallery, London, March-May 1986 1 exemplar
25 years of printmaking 1 exemplar
Olympische Spiele München 1972 1 exemplar
New electronic Snaps 1 exemplar
David Hockney: A Bigger book, Chronology 1 exemplar
Historia obrazów dla dzieci 1 exemplar
David Hockney : Painting and Photography 1 exemplar
David Hockney : The arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 (2020) — Illustrator, Interviewee — 1 exemplar
Resmin Tarihi 1 exemplar
The East Yorkshire Landscape 1 exemplar
220 for 202 1 exemplar
Dvid Hockney - A bigger book. Chronology 1 exemplar
David Hockney's Diaries 1 exemplar
Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) 1 exemplar
David Hockney: Paintings and Drawings for "Parade" - A French Triple Bill for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 5 May-7… (1981) 1 exemplar
David Hockney: Stage Works 1 exemplar
David Hockney : the arrival of spring 1 exemplar
Words & Pictures 1 exemplar
David Hockney Looking at Pictures in a Book at the National Gallery 1 July-31 August 1981 (1981) 1 exemplar
Tableaux et Dessins 1 exemplar
Photographs of China 1 exemplar
David Hockney : Some New Pictures 1 exemplar
Hockney's Operas 1 exemplar
Picture by David Hockney 1 exemplar
David Hockney: Recent Pictures 1 exemplar
Hockney~ David Hockney 1 exemplar
David Hockney: Looking at Pictures in a Book at the National Gallery - The Artist's Eye Exhibition 1 exemplar
Ma Normandie 1 exemplar
David Hockney: New Works 1 exemplar
Some Very Large New Paintings with Twenty-five Dogs Upstairs and Some Drawings of Friends (1995) 1 exemplar
Recent etchings 1 exemplar
Associated Works
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture [cat. exp., Royal Academy of Arts, London; 21 Jan - 09 April 2012, Guggenheim Museum,… (2012) — Prefácio — 106 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- HOCKNEY, David
- Data de nascimento
- 1937-07-09
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Los Angeles, California, USA
Bridlington, Yorkshire, England, UK - Educação
- Wellington Primary School
Bradford Grammar School
Bradford College of Art
Royal College of Art, London - Ocupações
- painter
draftsman
printmaker
stage designer
photographer
art historian - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Art, 1981)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (1997)
Order of Merit (2012)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 171
- Also by
- 18
- Membros
- 2,972
- Popularidade
- #8,582
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 31
- ISBN
- 187
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
Hockney, of course, has a long-standing bee in his bonnet about the way artists have used optical devices to assist them in composing pictures. So there's a lot about how every important artist from the renaissance onwards has been using a camera obscura to trace forms or at least to establish the composition of their work. It's perhaps controversial if you're an art historian, but if you don’t have a vested interest, it does seem to make perfect sense. Why wouldn't you use a tool if it's available and makes your work easier?
Of course, they emphasise that there's still always an important creative element in choosing the composition and lighting of what you want in your picture and then choosing how you want to transfer it from the projection to the permanent record.
Hockney points out that trained artists have often also turned out to be very good at taking photographs, whilst people who have no sense of visual art are unlikely to be good at taking photographs, except in a technical sense.
The book also covers moving images and digital creation of pictures — Hockney is the great advocate of iPad art, of course — but it’s just a bit too old to cover the rapidly developing topic of AI-created images. I’m sure there will be a chapter on that if they ever update the book. It would be interesting to know what Hockney thinks about computers producing images of penguins on surfboards or inadequately-clothed Asian girls in post-apocalyptic cityscapes.
It's interesting how this book is set up very explicitly as a dialogue with alternate passages written by Hockney and Gayford. Hockney writes, of course, from the practical viewpoint of a practising artist and also from his own aesthetic insight, whilst Gayford sticks more to filling us in on the history of art, explaining the background and context of the things that were going on around the artists at the time. It's a very good collaboration and it works surprisingly smoothly. I didn't find it at all distracting really.
The book is very richly illustrated. It includes practically every picture mentioned in the text, even the very over-familiar ones. In the paperback it's not always the most beautiful, glossy reproduction, but they're all perfectly adequate. The book is quite pretty to look at, although a bit chunky to be a coffee table book.
If you're going to read just one book on the history of visual images, this is probably a bit too random and discursive: you would probably want to start with someone like Gombrich. But this is also a very nice one, and a lively, entertaining read.… (mais)