The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Drawing Master: David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery and other essays, Nicholas James

Drawing Master: David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery and other essays

Nicholas James

The collection of essays and reviews published between 1990 and 2020 celebrates the life work of Britain's pre-eminent artist David Hockney (born Bradford 1937).

The compendium ranges from a study of his printmaking by author Marina Vaizey, first published in the quarterly review, Cv Journal of Art and Crafts 3/2 June 1990, to a major exhibition 'A Bigger Picture' on the theme of the East Yorkshire Landscape staged at the Royal Academy in 2012. Renowned author, poet and art historian Edward Lucie-Smith considers the artist's presentation of 'Eighty Two portraits and One Still Life', exhibited at the Royal Academ in 2016, while Cv editor Nicholas James reviews 'Drawn From Life', a survey Hockney drawings exhibited at at the National Portrait Gallery London 2020.

Book Details

  • Publisher: CV Publications
  • Publish Date: Nov 18th, 2023
  • Pages: 92
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.38in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9781908419545
  • Categories: General

About the Author

James, Nicholas: - 1989-91 With Sarah Batiste edited and published a quarterly review Cv Journal of Art and Crafts. 1992 founded Cv Publications, 1995 founded Cv/Visual Arts Research, publishing interviews with artists and curators, books amd monographs authored by Edward Lucie-Smith, Marina Vaizey, Anne Blood, James Cahill and Magdalena Wasiura. Presently operates Philip James Studio based at Candid Arts Trust, Islington North London.
Vaizey, Marina: - Marina Vaizey is a lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the art critic of the Financial Times for four years, and The Sunday Times for eighteen years. She has been a council member of the Arts Council, the Crafts Council, several art colleges, national museums, Friends groups and arts centres. Among her books are The Artist as Photographer, 100 Masterpieces of Art, Great Women Collectors, and she has written numerous catalogues, led over fifty trips visiting cultural institutions abroad, and lectured to art societies and in museums and galleries. She is currently writing for theartsdesk.com, the Burlington magazine, Dispatches (Imperial War Museum) and the V & A magazine.
Cahill, James: - James Cahill combines writing, research and painting with a role at one of London‟s leading contemporary art galleries. He studied at the Courtauld Institute, where his research focused on British twentieth-century artists' explorations of crucifixion and obscenity. He is the co-author of a monograph on British artist Angus Fairhurst (2009), and has written catalogue essays for a number of contemporary art exhibitions, as well as reviews for various publications. He has lectured at the Architectural Association, London, on the paintings of Francis Bacon, and at Oxford University on Renaissance iconography in contemporary art. His current research looks at the afterlife of ancient Greece and Rome in contemporary visual culture.