Marco Livingstone

A fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britain's most popular artists. Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though primarily a painter, he...

Ever since he made his first portraits at the age of sixteen, David Hockney has been fascinated by people—'the human clay', as W. H. Auden put it—and how they have been represented throughout the history of art. As much as any other artist in recent years, he has embraced, invigorated, and often subverted traditional portraiture, making it a central concern...

One of the most popular and influential British artists of our times, David Hockney has never ceased to change his style and ways of working, always re-energising his art with new solutions, fresh ideas, and technical mastery. Now excitedly embracing his 'late period', Hockney remains as engaged as ever with the questions he has always posed for himself—what to depict,...