How long does it take to read David Hockney?
David Hockney, Sarah Howgate, Barbara Stern Shapiro, R. B. Kitha, Henry Geldzahler
David Hockney by David Hockney, Sarah Howgate, Barbara Stern Shapiro, R. B. Kitha, Henry Geldzahler takes about 1 hour 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 40 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1968. 91 pages, about 25,025 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of my Father (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, and friends represent an intimate visual diary of the artist's life." "This illustrated book examines Hockney's portraits in all media - painting, drawing, photographs, and prints - and has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featured subjects include members of Hockney's family and private circle, as well as portraits of such artists and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj, Helmut Newton, Lawrence Weschler, and W.H. Auden. The authors reveal how Hockney's creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait work: from his battle with naturalism to his experimentation with and later rejection of photography, and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from life in oil." "Featuring more than 250 works from the past fifty years, David Hockney Portraits illustrates not only the fascinating range of Hockney's creative practice but also the unique and cyclical nature of his artistic concerns."--Jacket.
Subjects: Art, Modern, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Interviews, Criticism and interpretation, Modern Art
