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A BIGGER MSAGE: CONVERSATNS WH DAVID HOCKNEY BY MART GAYFORD – REVIEW
: 24 cmA rerd of a of private nversatns wh art cric Mart Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflectn, anecdote, passn and humour the us of his lifelong medatns on the problems and paradox of reprentg a three-dimensnal world on a flat surface"161 illtratns, 154 lor. It is about much more than that, but tre are at s massive, strongly beatg, very English heart, and David Hockney's disvery of them is an vatn to all to look better, see better, enjoy betifully illtrated (and very fairly priced) volume tak the form of nversatns wh Hockney's art historian iend Mart Gayford (they are signated on the page as DH and MG).
"It's not oil pat, " as he explas to Gayford, but what is ? A few months later, Mart Gayford vised Hockney the L. The nversatns between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprisg and revealg observatns on other artists—Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Pisso among them—and enlivened by shrewd sights to the ntrastg social and physil landsp of Yorkshire, Hockney's birthplace, and California.