Ebook {Epub PDF} Life of David Hockney by Catherine Cusset

 · In crisply written pages, Catherine Cusset covers the professional and personal life of David Hockney (now 82), combining facts gleaned from the many previously published materials of articles, biographies and interviews with her intuitions about what was going on in Hockney's mind/5.  · A fictionalized life of the gay British painter who came to define and embody California dreaming. Many have tried to put into words the tumultuous life of the much-loved British David Hockney, but few have captured his essence. In this novel, Cusset (The Story of Jane, , etc.) traces Hockney’s life from his first encounter with art as a child to his sexual awakening to the bursts of luck Author: Michael Valinsky. “Catherine Cusset’s book caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself.” —David Hockney With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born in in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist/5(51).

David Hockney: A Life. Catherine Cusset. This is a rather adoring depiction of the life of the gay British painter whose' work, life and debonair blaséness is the very model of LA's California Dreaming. Cusset takes us from the early days of Hockney life, through his change and development, his early struggles and awakenings; growing up. A hybrid of biography and novelistic chiaroscuro in which Catherine Cusset, a widely translated French novelist, tells us "I have imagined feelings, thoughts, and dialogue." The New York Times, June 4 , Ayten Tartici wrote: "Life of David Hockney feels almost as sunny as the poolside California that was the artist's longtime muse. August 1, Happy August! This month, we're reading Catherine Cusset's Life of David Hockney, which is an odd type of book that exists between biography and fiction. It tells the story of David Hockney, a still-living artist who's been a staple of the art world for decades. In less than pages, it takes you from Hockney's.

Catherine Cusset (born in Paris, ) is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel (Other Press, ), The Story of Jane (Simon Schuster, ), and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between and Some of her novels (Jouir, La Haine de la famille, Confessions d'un radine, and New York, Journal d’un cycle) are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Ultimately, “Life of David Hockney” feels almost as sunny as the poolside California that was the artist’s longtime muse. Cusset vouches for his demiurgic powers, his status as “priest of. In crisply written pages, Catherine Cusset covers the professional and personal life of David Hockney (now 82), combining facts gleaned from the many previously published materials of articles, biographies and interviews with her intuitions about what was going on in Hockney's mind.