Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, to coincide with their major David Hockney exhibition in 2025, this vivid book traces the life and work of one of Britain's most popular and significant artists. Expertly written by leading curatorial experts, art historians and critics, including Sir Norman Rosenthal, Sir Simon Schama and Fiona Maddocks, this definitive study combines a curated selection of archival photographs and striking artworks presented in a luxurious large-format book, offering a visually captivating and detailed tour of Hockney's extraordinary life and career.

Following an introduction providing an overview of Hockney's life and work, a series of chapters explore in detail the important moments, distinctive styles and obsessions that have marked the artist's varied career, from his childhood in Bradford and London, through his years in California, to his more recent life in Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Normandy. Several of the chapters are organised thematically according to artistic subject and medium, ranging from still lifes and portraits to his best-loved landscapes and striking designs for opera. A final chapter explores Hockney's engagement with new technologies, in particular the iPad, demonstrating the inexhaustible inventiveness, curiosity and creativity that have characterised his work over the decades.

Produced with the full participation of David Hockney and his studio, and featuring a large-scale landscape format with fold-out spreads that allow the reader to revel in the art, this is the most important book ever published on Hockney's entire career, and will undoubtedly appeal to the many admirers of his work around the world.

Publisher: Thames and Hudson