Hockney : printmaker / Richard Lloyd.
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TextPublisher: London : Scala, 2014Description: 160 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781857598933 (pbk.) :Contained works: Hockney, David. Works. SelectionsSubject(s): Hockney, David -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 769.9'2 Summary: In 1954, a 16-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 groundbaking, over six decades David Hockney has created graphic works of great wit, beauty and intellectual complexity. This book features over 150 works, from etchings executed at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, to experiments with printed computer drawings some 50 years later, via portraits, pools, poetry, Xeroxes and investigations into a multi-point perspective.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London from 5th February-11th May 2014.
In 1954, a 16-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 groundbaking, over six decades David Hockney has created graphic works of great wit, beauty and intellectual complexity. This book features over 150 works, from etchings executed at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, to experiments with printed computer drawings some 50 years later, via portraits, pools, poetry, Xeroxes and investigations into a multi-point perspective.
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