CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES is a photographer and writer. He specializes in architectural and garden photography and writes on architecture and social history. Sykes worked with Eric Clapton on his autobiography, Clapton, and his work has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, and Architectural Digest. He lives with his wife and daughter in North London.
"The Hockney who emerges from Sykes’s biography is far from an
average artist. Relentlessly curious, ambitious and irreverent, he
never rests on any laurels nor stays in one place for very
long."
—Washington Post
"Chapter by chapter, the book unfolds as a series of love affairs,
in which the workaholic artist falls madly in love with a new
art-making medium — fax machines, Polaroids and iPads, to name a
few — puzzles over its problems and potential, masters it and moves
on ... Sykes has an engaging style and an enviable ability to write
clearly about art."
—Associated Press
"Drawing on interviews with Hockney, his siblings, and colleagues;
Hockey's autobiography; and diaries of famous friends, such as
Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender, Sykes matches his
subject's ebullience in this admiring, well-researched life."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Sykes continues his meticulously detailed, multivolume biography
of the ever-replenishing font of creativity that is artist David
Hockney ... Sykes articulates all the verve, ingenuity, and complex
struggles involved in the protean Hockney’s deep inquiry into the
nature of perception while also illuminating his influences, from
his 'great hero,' Picasso, to Ingres, Thomas Moran, and Chinese
scrolls, and recounting his eager embrace of new technologies and
the resultant complex photo collages, sumptuous iPad drawings, and
stunning, high definition videos."
—Booklist
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