{"product_id":"a-bigger-message-conversations-with-david-hockney-9780500298350","title":"A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis now classic book details the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one \"see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still,\" as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media--from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad--have for the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? How have changes in technology affected the way artists depict the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conversations in this volume with writer and art critic Martin Gayford are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists--Van Gogh or Vermeer, Caravaggio, Monet, Picasso--and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney lived for many years, and Yorkshire, his birthplace. Some of the people he has encountered along the way--from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder--also make entertaining appearances in the dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Gayford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780500298350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGayford, Martin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMartin Gayford\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and art critic. He is the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable, and Michelangelo. His books include \u003cem\u003eMy Heart Is This: Tracey Emin on Painting\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHow Painting Happens (and why it matters)\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMan with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait with Lucian Freud\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModernists \u0026amp; Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney, and the London Painters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSpring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy\u003c\/em\u003e (with David Hockney), \u003cem\u003eLove Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954\u003c\/em\u003e (with David Dawson), and \u003cem\u003eVenice: City of Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Martin Gayford \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48685057966237,"sku":"9780500298350","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_19d07ff4-2d3a-4bcd-9069-7d0efe6715cb.jpg?v=1784713375","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/a-bigger-message-conversations-with-david-hockney-9780500298350","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}