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Bounces along as the rebellious, eccentric, artist discovers sex, then London, and so on to fame and fortune, via California. --Evening Standard
The most moving and amusing account of the most popular British artist of the 20th Century. --Geordie Greig, Evening Standard
Combines a serious account of Hockney's upbringing and artistic development in a fluent narrative with a light touch. --Jane Rye, Spectator
[Sykes] does it with verve and solid research. --Country Life
With this book, you get exactly what the cover promises...the book is well written and tells a lively story.
--The Scotsman
The testy, playful, brilliant Hockney of yore is convincingly restored in these pages --Art Review
Revealing and hugely enjoyable biography...it combines an authoritative account of Hockney's life up to 1975 with a light and always-readable tone. --Reader's Digest
The book is an insightful look at the images which illustrate it thanks to interviews with the important people in Hockney's life including access to his lovers, his family, the art world and even his mother's diary... The life behind the art makes for fascinating reading. --Stylist, Book of the Week
This is a chatty, knowledgeable, insider's biography, full of anecdotes. --Guardian
A breathtakingly thorough door-stopper.
--Shortlist
There are many telling details and anecdotes judiciously told and it leaves me wanting to know more of this rake's progress. Bring on volume two or even volume three. --Geordie Grieg, Evening Standard
Sykes is particularly effective in his racy depiction of the London art world... --Sunday Times
A minutely detailed account of the first half of Hockney's life...it's nothing if not assiduous - no detail is too small to escape attention. --4 stars, Mail on Sunday
Sykes is an exhaustive and authoritative telling of the Hockney story...Sykes is nothing if not fastidious in his research. --Independent on Sunday
The book reads almost as if Hockney had dictated it...Sykes splendidly evokes each backdrop, from smoky Methodist 1930s Yorkshire...to the 24-hour champagne and LSD party celebrating Hockney's sets for a Glyndebourne production of Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress.
--Financial Times
The most moving and amusing account of the most popular British artist of the 20th Century. --Geordie Greig, Evening Standard
Combines a serious account of Hockney's upbringing and artistic development in a fluent narrative with a light touch. --Jane Rye, Spectator
[Sykes] does it with verve and solid research. --Country Life
With this book, you get exactly what the cover promises...the book is well written and tells a lively story.
--The Scotsman
The testy, playful, brilliant Hockney of yore is convincingly restored in these pages --Art Review
Revealing and hugely enjoyable biography...it combines an authoritative account of Hockney's life up to 1975 with a light and always-readable tone. --Reader's Digest
The book is an insightful look at the images which illustrate it thanks to interviews with the important people in Hockney's life including access to his lovers, his family, the art world and even his mother's diary... The life behind the art makes for fascinating reading. --Stylist, Book of the Week
This is a chatty, knowledgeable, insider's biography, full of anecdotes. --Guardian
A breathtakingly thorough door-stopper.
--Shortlist
There are many telling details and anecdotes judiciously told and it leaves me wanting to know more of this rake's progress. Bring on volume two or even volume three. --Geordie Grieg, Evening Standard
Sykes is particularly effective in his racy depiction of the London art world... --Sunday Times
A minutely detailed account of the first half of Hockney's life...it's nothing if not assiduous - no detail is too small to escape attention. --4 stars, Mail on Sunday
Sykes is an exhaustive and authoritative telling of the Hockney story...Sykes is nothing if not fastidious in his research. --Independent on Sunday
The book reads almost as if Hockney had dictated it...Sykes splendidly evokes each backdrop, from smoky Methodist 1930s Yorkshire...to the 24-hour champagne and LSD party celebrating Hockney's sets for a Glyndebourne production of Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress.
--Financial Times
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Greatly enjoyed this biography which not just describes Hockney the artist but particularly Hockney the man, his doubts, delights, hopes and disappointments and, not least, the frequent returns to his roots and family in Bradford. I am greatly looking foreward to the second volume!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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A biography which entertains as it informs. It is very readable, full of outlandish stories that did not make it into Peter Webb's 1988 biography. I found the earlier years the most interesting, before Hockney's rise to fame. A major bonus in this biography is the ability of the author to draw on Laura Hockney's diaries. The entries quoted are a marvellous Alan Bennett-type foil to Hockney's new metropolitan ways. Thus Laura confides to her diary during one of Hockney's visits home from college: 'Met Mrs Todd who was pleased to see David but not keen on the blond hair'.
The book responds sensitively to the pictures, without losing sight of the fact that this is principally biography, not art history. It is particularly strong on the prints, which Hockney (we learn) first opted to do because he was hard up and the materials in the print department at the RCA were free.
I would have liked more photographs of both people and places mentioned, as well as the work. There is a mistake on page 315 when the author suggests Blake and Palmer were Pre-Raphaelites. They were not.
Nevertheless, this is an excellent book.
The book responds sensitively to the pictures, without losing sight of the fact that this is principally biography, not art history. It is particularly strong on the prints, which Hockney (we learn) first opted to do because he was hard up and the materials in the print department at the RCA were free.
I would have liked more photographs of both people and places mentioned, as well as the work. There is a mistake on page 315 when the author suggests Blake and Palmer were Pre-Raphaelites. They were not.
Nevertheless, this is an excellent book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This biography is not only full of interesting facts, it is written in a very easy and readable way. It is also very witty. I can recommend this book to everyone and am looking forward to part II.
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