
Paperback • 112 Pages • Size: 260 × 220 mm
15 B&W illustrations and 60 colour illustrations
ISBN: 9781848223752
'The two artists are rightly given equal billing here, with Davie’s vibrant, intuitive, improvisational and painterly pictures in dialogue with the touchingly personal, autobiographical and sexually charged works of the early 1960s through which Hockney first found his voice as a modern artist.’
Marco Livingstone
Alan Davie and David Hockney
Early Works
Edited by Eleanor Clayton and Helen Little
$49.99
but seldom seen paintings from the 1950s and 1960s
figures from the period including Derek Boshier and Sir Alan Bowness
Description
A richly illustrated text demonstrates points of convergence — such as the painterly surface, passion and poetry, and an exploration of text within the pictorial frame — while also presenting divergence, moving the discussion beyond comparison to reveal a moment when each artist expanded the expressive potential of the painted canvas.
Seeking to suggest new relationships and continuities between two generations previously segregated, this beautifully produced publication is ambitious in its intention, pushing the boundaries of traditional interpretations of British art history.