David Hockney by David Hockney was first published in 1976 and grew out of twenty-five hours of recorded conversation with the artist. A carefully crafted, collaborative memoir, this special full-color edition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the book's first publication.

In this witty, candid, and revealing self-portrait, Hockney recounts his early years in Bradford, England, where he was born, grew up, and first went to art school; his years at the Royal College of Art in London, during which he had his breakthrough; his sojourn in California, which inspired his best-known paintings, drawings, and prints; and his subsequent phase in Paris, where an exhibition at the Louvre established him as a "continental master."

The book’s fascination lies not only in the fact that the text is entirely Hockney's own—so that his life story is given full clarity—but also that it reproduces more than 400 of his paintings, graphic work, and drawings. The story, presented more or less chronologically, is informative and humorous, full of descriptions of his work, anecdotes about himself, other artists, and friends, his thoughts about art, and his ambiguous relationship with abstract and other styles of art. Above all, it is the story not so much of someone who has achieved something, but of an artist who is ceaselessly striving to improve his craft and imaginatively to portray the world around him.

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Edvard Munch occupies a pivotal place in artistic modernity. His work is permeated by a singular vision of the world, with a powerful symbolist dimension that goes beyond the masterpieces he created in the 1890s. For Munch, humanity and nature were united in the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, which is reflected in the recurrence of certain motifs and color combinations in his work. He wrote: “These paintings, which are, admittedly, relatively difficult to understand, will be...easier to grasp if they are integrated into a whole.”

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death presents about a hundred works—paintings, drawings, prints, and engraved blocks—reflecting the diversity of Munch’s practice. Seven essays explore the artist in his philosophical and scientific milieu and the places that shaped the man and his art, as well as offering a rare glimpse of Munch’s attempts at creative writing. They also examine the historical evolution of his monumental Frieze of Life series and the world-famous Scream. This publication invites readers to revisit the painter’s work in its entirety by following the thread of an ever-inventive pictorial thinking: a vision that is both fundamentally coherent, even obsessive, and at the same time constantly renewed.