Hockney: The Fully Authorised Biography Volume 2, Volume 2

Hockney's career spanned and helped to define the major art movements of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Volume 1 covered his early life: his precocious achievement at Bradford Art College and the Swinging Sixties in London, where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the era. Picking up Hockney's story in 1975, this volume follows him between Notting Hill and California, where he found inspiration for his celebrated swimming-pool paintings; charts his acclaimed work designing opera sets around the world; and explores his embrace of emerging technologies, from photography and the fax machine in the 1970s and 80s to the iPad in later life. Hockney's boundless energy extended beyond his art, and this volume sheds light on the glamorous circles in which he moved, as well as his sometimes turbulent relationships.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Hockney's paintings, notebooks, diaries and personal archives, this second volume continues the lively and revelatory account of an acclaimed artist whose extraordinary life and work left an enduring mark on British and international culture.