Review
...this is the perfect gift for Hockneyphiles. --Brian Sewell, Essential Art Books of 2013, The Evening Standard (London)
The exhibition catalogue throbs with vivid colour, yet some of its most beautiful pages reproduce charcoal sketches Hockney has made in the last year, chronicling spring's arrival in eloquent black-and-white --Sotherbys, November 2013
David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition (Prestel) has wonderful images of the artist s new (2013) charcoal sketches of the arrival of spring in Yorkshire, and also several poignant essays citing Hockney's desire to encourage people to be more active in your looking . . . you feel so much more free. Which is another way of saying, you feel more alive. --Caroline Daniel, Editor, FT Weekend, Books of the Year, 29th November 2013
From the Back Cover
Accompanying one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the past few years, this catalogue captures the grand scale and vibrant color of Hockney's work of the twenty-first century. In the past decade, having returned to England after years on the California coast, David Hockney has focused his attention on both landscapes and portraits, all the while maintaining his fascination with digital technology. The resulting work is a fanfare of color and light, ranging in dimension from billboard- to letter-size, and is the basis for a thrilling new exhibition that promises to become one of the most popular in recent memory. This lush and impeccably produced catalogue features over 100 full-color works of art from museum collections and Hockney's private studio, including such major new works as The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate Wood, The Bigger Message, and Bigger Yosemite. It also includes multiple-image galleries (spread over gatefolds) of some of his iPad drawings and self-portraits, plus film stills from the artist's "Cubist" movies. Hockney's own insight into this latest chapter of his career is found across the book's pages and is accompanied by thoughtful commentary by renowned critic Lawrence Weschler and art historian Sarah Howgate.
About the Author
RICHARD BENEFIELD is the deputy director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. DAVID HOCKNEY is an internationally renowned artist and one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. SARAH HOWGATE is curator of contemporary portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London. LAWRENCE WESCHLER is a writer of creative nonfiction and director of The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
