This publication is about Howard Hodgkins, one of the leading painters of the post-war generation. It spans his entire career and presents the artist's oeuvre in over 350 illustrations and in essays by Michael Auping, the chief curator of the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth who reviews Hodgkin's early and formative experiences and traces his development from these first beginnings. John Elderfield the Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, contributes an exchange of letters with the artist which explore a wide variety of topics illuminating the artist's work. Finally, the novelist and cultural historian Susan Sontag offers a personal view of the artist. This portrait and a catalogue raisonne of all the artist's oil paintings allows an overview of the artist's historical development.
- ISBN10 0500279705
- ISBN13 9780500279700
- Publish Date 27 May 1997 (first published 1 September 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English