At the beginning of 2020,just as global Covid-19 restrictions were coming into force,the artist David Hockney was at his house,studio and garden in Normandy. From there,he witnessed the arrival of spring,and recorded the blossoming of the surrounding landscape on his iPad,a medium he has been using for over a decade. Working outdoors was an antidote to the anxiety of the moment for Hockney -'We need art,and I do think it can relieve stress,'he says. This uplifting publication - produced to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts - includes 116 of his new iPad paintings and shows to full effect Hockney's singular skill in capturing the exuberance of nature.
Publisher: Royal Academy of ArtsISBN: 9781912520640Weight: 862 gDimensions: 175 x 250 mm
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts,23 May - 26 August 2021.
David Hockney
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Throughout a glittering career,William Boyd has covered everything from colonial farce to primate research in a series of beautifully-rendered novels. His 1991 debut A Good Man in Africa immediately bagged the Whitbread First Novel Award,a win that has heralded contemporary classics such as the Costa-winning Restless and the literary tour de force that is Any Human Heart.
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