David Hockey: Paper Trails

David Hockney is known for his distinctive paintings, primarily portraits and landscapes, but also for his approach to works on paper and prints, which reflect the vibrancy and careful indexing that can be seen in his broader body of work. The coffee table book "David Hockey: Paper Trails" shows an ever-evolving painter's quest to depict snapshots of life that capture and celebrate its true essence - its character, its soul.

Hockney's prints often display a dynamic interplay of color, form and perspective, and reflect his keen eye for visually narrating intimate elements of his own life. Throughout his career, he has experimented with various printmaking techniques, including etching, lithography, screen printing and, more recently, iPads. Each method reveals his zeal in manipulating the medium - without ever experiencing, in his own words, "a sense of failure." His visual experiments, always surprising in their results, suggest a rich indoor and outdoor life, captured in telling pieces and fragments, suggesting a montage of everyday scenes.

Like much of his oeuvre, Hockney's prints are based on an extensive art historical study of the optical devices of paintings by the old masters. Recently, his iPad-based art shows an interest in the changing seasons from his own place in the English countryside, among other interesting vantage points and geographical areas. Whether landscapes, portraits of friends or banal scenes, Hockney's prints display a harmonious blend of traditional craftsmanship and his own distinctive playfulness and insight into everyday life.

Specifications
Title: David Hockey: Paper Trails
Author: Shai Baitel
Publisher: Skira
Size: 308 x 248 x 24 mm
Size: 256 pages
Weight: 1658 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9788857252728

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