Martha’s Vineyard and other places: SPECIAL EDITION
- Artist: David Hockney
- Published: First published 1985
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
- Format: Boxed Hardback
- Height: 31cm
- Pages: 152
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
£100.00
Add to basketMartha’s Vineyard and other places: SPECIAL EDITION
Wherever David Hockney travels, he makes notes, drawings, jottings and visual comments about his surroundings. In this facsimile we have one of his sketchbooks from a summer trip to Martha’s Vineyard, exactly reproduced from the original. Filled with lively sketches, doodles and delightful vignettes it conveys the spontaneity of his art and the immediacy of his response to his environment.
A separate text volume, illustrated with 30 documentary photographs, gives the background to the trip and the sketches reproduced in the facsimile. The volumes are presented in a special, beautifully designed, boxed set.
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Artists Biography
(b Bradford, 9 July 1937). English painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer. Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, Hockney made apparent his facility as a draughtsman while studying at Bradford School of Art between 1953 and 1957, producing portraits and observations of his surroundings under the influence of the Euston Road School and of Stanley Spencer. From 1957 to 1959 he worked in hospitals as a conscientious objector to fulfil the requirements of national service. On beginning a three-year postgraduate course at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1959, he turned first to the discipline of drawing from life in two elaborate studies of a skeleton before working briefly in an abstract idiom inspired by the paintings of Alan Davie.
