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Additional authors

1. Fagan, Teresa Lavender

Description

1. 181 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not sufficiently "contemporary" to be valued. Trips to New York and California--where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming pools--introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic. A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, Life of David Hockney offers an accessible overview of the painter who shook the world of art with a vitality and freedom that neither heartbreak nor illness nor loss could corrode"--

Uniform title

1. Vie de David Hockney. English

Alternative title

1. Vie de David Hockney.

Subject

1. Painters
2. California
3. Hockney, David
4. Painters > England > Fiction
5. 1900-1999
6. Gay fiction
7. New York (State) > New York
8. Biographical fiction
9. Hockney, David > Fiction
10. FICTION / Gay
11. California > 20th century > Fiction
12. FICTION / Biographical
13. Fiction
14. England
15. New York (N.Y.) > 20th century > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Biographical fiction.
2. Fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 19-5315

Note

1. "Originally published in 2018 as Vie de David Hockney: Roman by Éditions Gallimard, Paris."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181).

Author

1. Cusset, Catherine, 1963- author.

Title

1. Life of David Hockney : a novel / Catherine Cusset ; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Publisher

1. New York : Other Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181).

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator.
2. Translation of: Cusset, Catherine, 1963- Vie de David Hockney.

Other form:

1. Online version: Cusset, Catherine, 1963- author. Life of David Hockney New York : Other Press, 2019 9781590519844 (DLC) 2018046618

LCCN

1. 2018045824

ISBN

1. 9781590519837 paperback
2. 1590519833 paperback

Research call number

1. JFD 19-5315