David Hockney: The Biography, 1937-1975

by Christopher Simon Sykes

Book Overview

Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney's extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385531443
• ISBN13: 9780385531443
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.1" x 9.5"