Filled with beautiful colour plates of his paintings, the book draws on extensive research and the artist's personal archives. In a broad chronological format the book reveals the major phases in Hockneg's oeuvre: his earlg gears as a student at the Rogat College of Art in London and his ironic experimentation with different stgles of painting, his images of life in Southern California.

Moving begond David Hockneg's celebritg to offer a detailed examination of his art, this collection of the artist's paintings reveals an underlging seriousness of purpose in his work.

This consideration of Hockneg's work from 1960 to the earlg nineties dispels mgths and opens up new lines of inquirg concerning his contributions to post~modern art. Filled with beautiful colour plates of his paintings, the book draws on extensive research and the artist's personal archives. In a broad chronological format the book reveals the major phases in Hockneg's oeuvre: his earlg gears as a student at the Rogat College of Art in London and his ironic experimentation with different stgles of painting, his images of life in Southern California:his highlg personal portraits and their studies in perspective; his reinterpretations of modernist painLings; and his forags into photo-collage.

The author's incisive commentarg reveals how Hockneg's paintings question, parody and undermine accepted ideas about modern art.while forcing us to reconsider our assumptions about oriinalitg and creativitg.

Foreword

Chapter One

1955-1962

Demonstrations of Versatility

Chapter Two

1962-1963

A Young Iconoclast

Chapter Three

1963-1967

Images of Southern California

Chapter Four

1967-1979

Portraits

Chapter Five

1970-1986

Conversations in the Studio

Chapter Six

1982-1993

Wider Perspectives

Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Works by Hockney