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Pull up a chair for conversations with David Hockney. Martin Gayford follows the artist’s thinking about pictures, looking and the pleasures of making art.
Readers exploring artist lives, with an interest in images, ideas and artistic practice.
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Publisher edition ISBN: 9780500292259
“A remarkable picture of Britain’s greatest living artist”
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