A Decade of Private Conversations

David Hockney is described as the worlds most popular living painter. His exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art.

In this remarkable book Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a 3-dimensional world on a flat surface.

These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along the way from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder make entertaining entries into the dialogue.

84 pages, fully illustrated, 32.5 x 25 cm.

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