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A Bigger Message - Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
48.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art
In this remarkable book, a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Thes ...Show more
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely belie ...Show more
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 1945-70 by Martin Gayford
55.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a ...Show more
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (HB) by Martin Gayford; David Hockney
55.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
"I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it." David Hockney On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of t ...Show more
The Yellow House : Van Gogh, Gauguin and nine turbulent weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Two artistic giants. One small house. From October to December 1888 a pair of largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh ate, drank, talked, argued, slept and painted in one of the most intense and astonishing creative outpourin ...Show more
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