ロンドンのスウィンギング60年代には、グラフィックなラインとテキストを組み込んだ作品を、1970年代のカリフォルニアのライフスタイルを表現した有名なスイミング・プール・シリーズを、生まれ故郷のヨークシャーに戻った後は、注意深く観察された肖像画や鮮やかな色彩の特大の風景画など、常に忘れがたいイメージを生み出してきました。ドローイングに加え、多視点的なポラロイドのコラージュ、現代的なメディアを使って光をとらえたiPadのドローイングなど、ホックニーの絶え間ない実験への喜びを垣間見ることができます。 この特別版は、TASCHENの創立40周年を記念して、「David Hockney: A Bigger Book」の2冊を新たに編集したもの。ホックニーの生涯と作品を、作品とその時代の声との対話として年ごとに紹介し、年表のテキストではアーティストによるレビューや考察を、肖像写真や展覧会の様子とともに補足しています。ホックニーがどのように芸術の研究を行い、どのように絵画を発展させ、どこから多面的な作品のインスピレーションを得ているのかが、ページをめくるごとに明らかになる作品集です。
A year-by-year journey through the life and work of David Hockney that follows the artist from London in the Swinging Sixties, via Californian swimming pools, to the landscapes of his native Yorkshire. Artworks and biographical text together let the reader take part in Hockney’s artistic research, inspiration, and creation.
A comprehensive chronicle of David Hockney’s life and work Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception—for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities. He has consistently created unforgettable images: works with graphic lines and integrated text in the Swinging Sixties in London; the famous swimming pool series as a representation of the 1970s California lifestyle; closely observed portraits and brightly colored, oversized landscapes after his eventual return to his native Yorkshire. In addition to drawings in which he transfers what he sees directly onto paper, there are multiperspective Polaroid collages that open up the space into a myriad of detailed views, and iPad drawings in which he captures light using a most modern medium—testaments to Hockney’s enduring delight in experimentation. This special edition has been newly assembled from the two volumes of the David Hockney: A Bigger Book monograph to celebrate TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary. Hockney’s life and work is presented year by year as a dialogue between his works and voices from the time period, alongside reviews and reflections by the artist in a chronological text, supplemented by portrait photographs and exhibition views. Together they open up new perspectives, page after page, revealing how Hockney undertakes his artistic research, how his painting develops, and where he finds inspiration for his multifaceted work.
