Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Spring Cannot be Cancelled is a Sunday Times bestseller that explores the relationship between art and nature. It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, illustrated by Hockney's new, unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings. The book celebrates the power of art to divert and inspire and teaches us how to see and live.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 280 pages
\n Publication date: 25 March 2021
\n Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

"We have lost touch with nature, foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over, and then what? What have we learned?... The only real things in life are food and love, in that order, just like [for] our little dog Ruby... and the source of art is love. I love life."

DAVID HOCKNEY

Praise for Spring Cannot be Cancelled:

This book is not so much a celebration of spring as a springboard for ideas about art, space, time, and light. It is scholarly, thoughtful, and provoking.

The Times

Lavishly illustrated... Gayford is a thoughtfully attentive critic with a capacious frame of reference.

Guardian

Hockney and Gayford's exchanges are infused with their deep knowledge of the history of art... This is a charming book, and ideal for lockdown because it teaches you to look harder at the things around you.

Lynn Barber, The Spectator

Designed to underscore [Hockney's] original message of hope, and to further explore how art can gladden and invigorate... meanders amiably from Rembrandt, to the pleasure principle, andouillette sausages, and, naturally, to spring.

Daily Telegraph

On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.

Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms arts capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on David Hockney's experiences during lockdown in 2020. The book explores the relationship between art and nature, and how art can be a source of hope and inspiration during difficult times.

Hockney believes that we have lost touch with nature and that we need to reconnect with it. He argues that the only real things in life are food and love, and that the source of art is love. He also believes that the source of art is love.

The book is lavishly illustrated with Hockney's paintings and drawings, and includes essays by art critics and scholars. The book is a testament to Hockney's talent and creativity, and to his ability to inspire and uplift others.

In conclusion, Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an inspiring manifesto that affirms arts capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on David Hockney's experiences during lockdown in 2020, and explores the relationship between art and nature. The book is lavishly illustrated with Hockney's paintings and drawings, and includes essays by art critics and scholars. The book is a testament to Hockney's talent and creativity, and to his ability to inspire and uplift others.

\n Weight: 818g\n
Dimension: 299 x 235 x 36 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780500094365\n \n