{"product_id":"spring-cannot-be-cancelled-9780500296608","title":"Spring Cannot be Cancelled","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A burst of springtime joy' Daily Telegraph 'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated' Guardian David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy  On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.     Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book is not so much a celebration of spring as a springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light. It is scholarly, thoughtful and provoking' - The Times\u003cbr\u003e'A burst of springtime joy' - Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e'Lavishly illustrated… Gayford is a thoughtfully attentive critic with a capacious frame of reference' - Guardian\u003cbr\u003e'Gloriously illustrated … It’s a book about many things – Hockney’s love of France and French painting, his reflections on many other artists among them. But at its heart is this octogenarian’s adoration of nature, his belief that art is rooted in love, and a restless gusto for life ' - Andrew Marr, The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 An unexpected move \u003cbr\u003e  2 Studio work \u003cbr\u003e  3 La vie française: French life in a Bohemian style \u003cbr\u003e  4 Lines and time \u003cbr\u003e  5 A merry Christmas and an unexpected New Year \u003cbr\u003e  6 Locked down in paradise \u003cbr\u003e  7 A house for an artist and a painter’s garden \u003cbr\u003e  8 The sky, the sky! \u003cbr\u003e  9 Sumptuous blacks and subtler greens \u003cbr\u003e  10 Several smaller splashes \u003cbr\u003e  11 Everything flows \u003cbr\u003e  12 Rippling lines and musical spaces \u003cbr\u003e  13 Lost (and found) in translation \u003cbr\u003e  14 Picasso, Proust, and pictures \u003cbr\u003e  15 Being somewhere \u003cbr\u003e  16 Full moon in Normandy","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864795754839,"sku":"9780500296608","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500296608.jpg?v=1722273159","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spring-cannot-be-cancelled-9780500296608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}