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That's the Way I See It | 
 enlarge | Author: David Hockney
Creator: Nikos Stangos
Publisher: Thames Hudson
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 481287
Media: Paperback
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0500280851
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780500280850
ASIN: 0500280851
Publication Date: July 25, 2005
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Condition: Good Condition, delivery time 10 to 12 Working days, via Priority airmail from UK
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I"There is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering, but I believe that my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...I do believe that painting can change the world." /I#151;David Hockney PIn this classic book, one of the most critically acclaimed and universally popular artists of modern times describes his life and work from the mid-1970s to the 1990s. David Hockney has forged a new way of seeing through an intense exploration of a variety of forms. Working in almost every medium#151;painting, drawing, stage design, photography, and printmaking#151;he has stretched the boundaries of all of them. PHockney has undertaken a singular and ambitious experiment with ways of seeing and ways of representing sight: ranging from his paintings, with their challenges to perspective and brilliant colors, to his vivid multidimensional photo-collages and his fax art, computer printings, and colored laser prints. Constantly questioning, seeking, taking nothing for granted, Hockney has in his own way transformed our understanding of how we perceive the world and how art can alter our vision. PInterweaving detailed accounts of personal experience and artistic endeavor, Hockney has produced here one of the most revealing autobiographies ever of the modern artist. IThat's the Way I See It/I is a tour de force#151;an unparalleled insight into one of the most original creative personalities of our age. 365 illustrations, 315 in color.
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Best of Hockney's Books August 10, 2007
Saklas Zakti
One of the best David Hockney books. br /A must have if you are interested in his photo montage method aka joiner method.
great purchase July 4, 2007
Diana Zuleta Arrieta (ny, ny)
i had read it before and i just had to have it, its an amazing book even if you dont know david hockneys work, the book will make you fall in love with him and his art
A Hockney Treasure House! July 18, 2006
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Fortunately for us, Chronicle Books continues to grace the art bookstores with superb and affordable monographs on art that make a difference. In this completely enchanting, richly illustrated book David Hockney conducts a conversation with us, the reader, sharing his unique and genteel ideas on how he sees and hence composes the paintings and drawings and photographic montages and sets of operas that have so enriched the art world since he first began his long career. br / br /Hockney's writing style is quietly warm, honest, clever, whimsical and very informed. In this truly magnificent volume he is sharing not only his forays into experimental art (his influences from Picasso, Bacon, and the many MANY illustrious friends who fill his life), he also allows us to understand why he experiments with photography (his explosive yet intimate collages of Polaroid rooms of conversing friends are unique to Hockney), his manner of viewing huge spaces and then parceling them onto paper or canvas in a manner that allows us to see vistas not available to the isolated glance, his still lifes, his sketches and portraits of studio visitors - the volume of work is staggering. br / br /Another fine discussion revolves around is spectacular sets for opera (Tristan und Isolde, Turandot, The Magic Flute, A Rake's Progress, Die Frau Ohne Schatten) - these coming from an artist who is almost completely without hearing making music visual! br / br /For all lovers of Hockney's work as well as for those who want to understand why he so very popular, this is one of the best introductions available about the man and his work! Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, July 06
A Real Beauty ! November 16, 2002
BeachReader (Delaware)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of David Hockney's for many many years and was delighted to find this book. He writes in an understated, easy way about his art and about modern art in general. pTwo of the sections were particularly interesting: Art versus the Art World and The Power of Art. pIn the book, Hockney explained how places and his personal experiences have influenced his art over the years. He talks about how he is incorporating photography into his work and feels that it is an artist's responsibility to be open to new forms of expression. He says he is an artist who is always working. I think he is always experimenting too, with different methods of expressing his artistic vision.pHe said he asssumes that if he is interested in painting something, others will be interested as well. I loved this viewpoint....in other words, he creates for himself. pThis was a lovely book---especially all of the GORGEOUS color reproductions which traced the Hockney's evolution and his journeys.
Now I see it ----- differently! October 28, 2000
C. Wu (Northern California)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an interesting book because it explains the discovery of ways of seeing, and in the process of explaining alters the way the reader sees art.pThe challenge of pop art or abstract art is that to the uninitiated it seems gimmicky, and one often goes 'you've got to be kidding?' But with this wonderful exploration of the different ways that art and photography are ways of capturing a point of view, not a reproduction of a point of view. And more importantly, how Mr. Hockney comes to these expressions of point of view you get a glimpse of not only an interpretation of art, but the process of art. I love words and the essays are as magnificent as his art in their clarity and honesty. The section on his photo montages are amazing.
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