David Hockney: A Bigger Book
From the swimming pools of Los Angeles to the quiet hedgerows of Yorkshire, Hockney has never stopped looking, closely, curiously, with joy and urgency. A Bigger Book is the story of that gaze: wide open, ever shifting, and deeply human.
This collector’s edition unfolds like a studio visit across decades. You step into moments: his sunlit canvases, his photo collages, the iPad drawings made with a finger’s tap. But you also step into the artist’s mind: his handwritten notes, his letters, his belief that art should not just depict life, but amplify it.
Curated in close collaboration with Hockney himself, the book is a portrait not just of a career, but of a way of seeing the world, through light, color, memory, and movement. It is vast in scale, yet intimate in feeling. And like Hockney’s work, it holds space for contradiction: playfulness and mastery, simplicity and depth.
To collect A Bigger Book is to hold a living archive—of an artist who continues to remind us that the act of looking is a radical one. That beauty is not found in grandeur, but in presence.
This isn’t just a book. It’s a life, unfolding, page by page, color by color, question by question.
Details:
– Limited Collector’s Edition of 9,000 copies, signed by David Hockney
– Hardcover, 498 pages, including 13 fold-out pages
– Includes 680-page illustrated chronology companion volume
– Format: 50 x 70 cm
– Custom-designed bookstand by Marc Newson
– Stand platform: 78 x 62.5 cm
– Distance between stand legs (floor): 86 cm
– Language: English
– ISBN: 978-3-8365-0787-5
Offered with care, for those who collect with intention.
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CURATOR´S NOTE
In A Bigger Book, we don’t just see David Hockney’s art—we step into the way he looks at the world. Across six decades, this collector’s edition traces a visual language shaped by light, place, and a persistent sense of wonder. From the pools of Los Angeles to the hedgerows of Yorkshire, it maps a life spent noticing—shifting between mediums, embracing technology, and always returning to the act of looking. This is more than a monograph. It’s a body of work that breathes. A portrait of an artist in motion—curious, restless, and profoundly alive. To collect it is to enter a long, unfolding conversation with one of the great observers of our time.
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