Hodgkin, Howard

Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonne

The most complete book to date on one of the leading painters of the postwar generation: enlarged, updated, and redesigned.

Howard Hodgkin's career has spanned seven decades, and this extensive catalogue raisonné includes over 450 paintings, most reproduced in color.

Marla Price, an expert on the work of Hodgkin, has brought her 1995 catalogue raisonné completely up-to-date, with reproductions of over 150 recent paintings finished in the past decade. Invaluable information is given on the provenance of all the paintings, their exhibition histories, and published references to discussions of the works, while an introduction by John Elderfield sheds light on the artist's materials and techniques. The reference section includes a list of exhibitions and a chronology, and an extensive bibliography cites periodical and newspaper articles, the artist's statements and interviews, exhibition catalogues, and television and radio interviews.

A touring exhibition of Hodgkin's work can be seen in 2006 at The Irish Museum of Modern Art and Tate Britain. 472 illustrations, 413 in color.

Howard Hodgkin Prints

The definitive celebration of the most popular area of this artist's work.

Howard Hodgkin's prints represent an extraordinary body of work, a parallel and very different achievement from his paintings. They have been internationally celebrated and passionately collected, but never brought together. Now available in paperback, this first-ever comprehensive survey and catalogue raisonné, compiled by Liesbeth Heenk, includes a major essay by Nan Rosenthal, Senior Consultant in the Department of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

As a painter, Hodgkin has preferred to create small works using oils and working on wood. As a printmaker, he has challenged the format, techniques, and expressive potential of the medium. He began in 1953 and has now made over 140 works on paper. Far from seeing them as poor relations to his paintings, he has consistently explored the print medium for its own sake, making astonishingly varied, emotive, and persuasive works that are paradoxically unique as well as multiples. He chooses to work at one remove, giving his assistants detailed instructions and using metaphors such as to handle the material "like a silk stocking." An interview with Hodgkin sheds light on the genesis of the prints and investigates his conviction that printmaking is an independent process.The book features over eighty color plates and a fully illustrated catalogue raisonné, plus a chronology, an extensive bibliography, and a list of solo and group exhibitions. 209 illustrations, 83 in color and 126 in duotone.

Writers on Howard Hodgkin

Writers on Howard Hodgkin gathers together for the first time the responses of major contemporary writers to the work of Howard Hodgkin. Through the variety of voices it features and the range of literary approaches they employ, this collection provides remarkable new insights into HodgkinÂ’s work, as well as examples of some of the most incisive writing on art published in recent years.

Illustrated in full color, this is a unique combination of the visual and the written word and a fitting tribute to a remarkable artist.

Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings 1973-84

Howard Hodgkin, Paintings 1992-2007 (Yale Center for British Art)

Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) is one of the foremost painters of his generation. Painted on wood in thick swaths of color, his works can often appear purely abstract. But in fact they are attempts to recapture the sensation of specific moments from memory and transform them into pictures that get to the heart of being itself. This lavishly illustrated volume is the most thorough survey of HodgkinÂ’s career to date, giving new insights into the artistÂ’s motivations and technique.

Howard Hodgkin Large Paintings

Howard Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the most significant painters - and certainly the greatest colourist - at work in Britain today. His method of painting means that he takes several years to complete a work and, as a result, his exhibitions are eagerly awaited. Hodgkin's paintings are primarily grounded in a remembered experience - a meeting with friends, a view across a landscape, the moment after a meal. From this starting point Hodgkin embarks on his painting and, working over a long period, produces layered, richly coloured, sweeping compositions, which extend into the picture frame. The finished paintings hover brilliantly between representation and abstraction and have been described as 'profound painterly equivalents for memory itself'. Contents: Foreword - Timothy Clifford, Director-General, National Galleries of Scotland Introduction - Richard Calvocoressi On Howard Hodgkin - Robert Rosenblum Panel Discussions: Howard Hodgkin's Large Paintings - Richard Kendall Catalogue C

Howard Hodgkin Paintings

With such evocative titles as "The Last Time I Saw Paris," "It Can't Be True," and "Love Letter," Howard Hodgkin's lush paintings, which are both abstract and narrative, call to mind the mysterious act of remembering. Eighty of Hodgkin's best works, dating from 1980 to 1995, are lovingly reproduced in full color. This book is the catalogue of the most important exhibition of Hodgkin's work in at least ten years, and traces his early development to his current position as one of the leading painters of the postwar generation. Completing the volume is a full catalogue raisonne of all of Hodgkin's oil paintings (complete to 1995), as well as a penetrating essay about the artist and contemporary art by Susan Sontag.

The most complete study to date of one of the leading painters of the postwar generation, and the catalogue of the most important exhibition of Hodgkin's work in more than ten years. Printed in duotone, the catalogue allows the reader to see the full range of the artist's achievement. 354 illustrations, 267 in duotone and 80 in full color.

Howard Hodgkin

This book of Howard Hodgkin's work by Andrew Graham-Dixon, one of Britain's foremost art critics, was published to great acclaim in 1994. Incisive and beautifully written, it illuminates Hodgkin's rich and complex art through its guiding themes and elucidates the passions and preoccupations that lie behind the paintings. Unlike most monographs, Graham-Dixon's focuses on the emotional and intellectual essence of the paintings as he explores their strategies. Hodgkin's complex use of scale and color, the nature of his pictorial language, and the subtle evocation in his painting of eroticism, time, and experience reveal a tension between exuberance and melancholy. This revised and expanded edition includes over twenty additional color reproductions and is brought up to date with a new chapter in which Graham-Dixon discusses the paintings created since the mid-1990s, works that are freer and more fluent, and often on a much larger scale than earlier ones. Enthusiasm for Hodgkin's paintings among art critics and historians, art collectors, and the general public has never been greater. He stands confirmed by this richly illustrated study as a master of the hesitant, truant nature of life and emotion, an artist whose great achievement is to have created equivalents in painting for the texture of memory itself. 121 color and 22 b/w illustrations.

HOWARD HODGKIN