Hockney Paints the Stage, Opera Ballet Scenography Design Monograph, 1983, 1st

by Stephen Spender, John Dexter, John Cox, Martin Friedman

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CONDITION: Very Good. Exhibition sponsor bookplate, else unmarked. First Edition. 1983. Walker Art Center; Abbeville Press, Minneapolis & NY. Paperback: stiff glossy pictorial covers w/ bright color retention, faint surface scuffing, minor rubbing along the perimeter edges. Yellow paper spine w/ brown lettering, square uncreased backstrip, light softening to the spine ends. Binding tight, solid & square. Midland Bank Canada sponsor bookplate to the inside front cover, from the 1984 Art Gallery of Ontario tour. Color process plates, monochrome photographs, stage diagrams & preparatory gouache reproductions throughout. 227 pp. 9.75x10" (Quarto). Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Hockney Paints the Stage documents the theatrical scenography, costume concepts, and set designs created by David Hockney between 1966 and 1983. Published by Abbeville Press in association with the Walker Art Center to accompany the international retrospective organized by curator Martin Friedman, the volume examines Hockney's reinvention of classical opera and ballet staging across London, Glyndebourne, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Manufactured in Japan with high-fidelity color process presswork, the volume reproduces preparatory gouache studies, architectural stage diagrams, and full-color production photographs. The layouts capture Hockney's pale

• Publisher: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1983
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780896593978
• Condition: Very Good

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