A Times Art Book of the Year Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Paris this vivid and visually engaging large-format book offers a detailed journey through
Hockney's remarkable life and career. Playful keen eyed ever curious David Hockney is
one of our greatest contemporary artists. Published in association with the Fondation Louis
Vuitton Paris and tied to its major 2025 exhibition David Hockney charts an extraordinarily
creative life through images and text in one large-format landscape book. The artworks
chosen reflect Hockney's key themes and preoccupations over the decades from his early life in
Bradford and London through the California era and his later years in Bridlington Yorkshire
and Normandy France. Several of the chapters are arranged thematically ranging from still
life and portraits to his much-loved landscapes and stunning designs for opera. A final chapter
explores Hockney's engagement with digital art particularly on the iPad. Throughout we see
the endless inventiveness curiosity and creativity that have characterized Hockney's work over
eight decades. To give context to Hockney's art this definitive survey features a selection
of archival photographs and eye-catching artworks allied to expertly written text by
pre-eminent curatorial experts art historians and critics including Sir Norman Rosenthal and
Sir Simon Schama. Compiled with the full involvement of David Hockney and his studio and
with a large-scale landscape format with a selection of gatefolds that enables the reader to
revel in the art this is the most important book on Hockney's entire career to date and will
appeal to the many fans of the artist's work across the globe.
