David Hockney. My Window - (Hardcover)

About the Book

Now available in a wallet-friendly pocket edition, this artist's book by David Hockney collects 120 iPhone and iPad paintings, recording his perceptions of the world from the window of his Yorkshire home. Each image depicts a fleeting moment--together they paint the passage of time through Hockney's eyes.

Book Synopsis

"For me, it's really the joy of looking out into the world and getting this positive energy... It's opening up our vision, and how we look."
--David Hockney

When David Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, it opened up entirely new possibilities for his art. He made his first digital paintings in spring 2009, describing the morning landscape in broad lines and dazzling colors directly on a display that offered subtle hues as unmixed expressions of pure light. Then in 2010, Hockney started working with an iPad, and the larger screen expanded his artistic repertoire and enabled an even more complex interplay of color, light, and line.

Each image in this book captures a fleeting moment seen through a window in Hockney's Yorkshire home: from vibrant sunrise and lilac morning sky to peaceful night-time impressions or the sudden arrival of spring. Fascinating details reveal drops on window panes, distant lights in the night, reflections on vases or an abundance of varied window-sill vegetation. In 120 paintings made between 2009 and 2012, selected and arranged by the artist himself, we experience the passage of time through the eyes of David Hockney.

This artist's book, which first appeared in an exclusive signed edition in 2020, now returns in a wallet-friendly pocket edition. So now is the perfect occasion to heed the advice of the Times critic regarding this book: "If you would like to be given a bouquet by David Hockney, here is your chance."

Review Quotes

"My Window will take you through the hours and the days and the seasons as they have been captured, moment by luminous moment, in a succession of digital drawings by our most famous living artist. As the long dark nights of winter draw tightly around us, here is a volume of images to brighten your day."-- "The Times"

"A continent away from his perennially sunny Los Angeles poolscapes of the 1960s and '70s, the British artist David Hockney has turned his attention to the ever-changing diurnal rhythm of the world outside his bedroom window."-- "The New York Times"

"For me, it's really the joy of looking out into the world and getting this positive energy... It's opening up our vision, and how we look."-- "David Hockney"

"If you would like to be given a bouquet by Hockney, here is your chance."-- "The Times"

"For Hockney fans, this wallet-friendly keepsake is a no-brainer."-- "My Modern Met"

"[A] mini masterpiece."-- "Stylist"