DAVID HOCKNEY
SPRING CANNOT BE CANCELLED
OUTLINE
On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons. When Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring.
REVIEWS
'This book is not so much a celebration of spring as a springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light. It is scholarly, thoughtful and provoking' The Times
'Underscoring his original message of hope, Hockney explores how art can gladden and invigorate ... meanders amiably from Rembrandt, to the pleasure principle, andouillette sausages and to spring’' Daily Telegraph
'Lavishly illustrated… Gayford is a thoughtfully attentive critic with a capacious frame of reference' Guardian
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