Hockney - Techno Geek!
Most of this book in written in a Q&A style which I've never experienced before. It works quite well except when the author wanders off into discussing another aspect of Hockney's work and you realize eventually it's not a long question. It got a bit over technical for me at times e.g. the chapter on perspectives was heavy and also the several pages explaining the use of different lenses were boggling.
I learned a lot about Hockney - artist, photographer, film maker, muralist, techno geek, music lover and his knowledge about many artists and their styles. The sections I really appreciated were his echoes of the views of Da Vinci and Vasari on acquiring basic skills - his insistence that artists look hard and long at nature and his disappointment that the skill of drawing was no longer taught at art schools.
Shawn Callon, author of The Diplomatic Spy, wrote this review
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
I learned a lot about Hockney - artist, photographer, film maker, muralist, techno geek, music lover and his knowledge about many artists and their styles. The sections I really appreciated were his echoes of the views of Da Vinci and Vasari on acquiring basic skills - his insistence that artists look hard and long at nature and his disappointment that the skill of drawing was no longer taught at art schools.
Shawn Callon, author of The Diplomatic Spy, wrote this review
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
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