David Hockney's books range from visual retrospectives and sketchbooks to conversations about drawing, photography and the history of image-making. A Bigger Book surveys decades of painting, collage, portraiture, swimming-pool pictures, landscapes and digital work on a large scale, while Secret Knowledge argues that old masters may have used optical devices to assist drawing and perspective. Hockney's Pictures and published sketchbooks show his recurring experiments with viewpoint, colour and the problem of representing space on a flat surface. The text is usually conversational and artist-led rather than academic art history, with images doing most of the work. His books fit contemporary art, painting, photography and visual theory, particularly for readers interested in how artists construct perspective and seeing. Read more Less
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