Hockney on Turner Watercolours
ISBN 978 1 85437 783 8
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
visiting.britain [at] tate.org.uk
David Hockney
This stunning book accompanies Tate Britain’s BP exhibition Hockney on Turner Watercolours, the largest survey of Turner watercolour masterpieces Tate has ever mounted.
In an exclusive interview with the lead curator of the exhibition, David Blaney Brown, David Hockney comments on his predecessor’s life and art, presenting his own choice of Turner’s remarkable colour studies and ‘beginnings’ — the works in which Turner explored the colour harmonies, compositions and patterns of light and shade for his finished watercolours.
The influence of Turner on Hockney’s recent return to painting the English landscape is also discussed in this insightful and revealing book.
Buy online at www.tate.org.uk/shop/product.do?id=34773
The exhibition Hockney on Turner Watercolours is at Tate Britain until 3 February 2008. For more information, please visit www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/turnerwatercolours/default.shtm
