‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’: a tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasure

Pop art had a miserable streak a chevrolet wide. Most of its great exponents – Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter – were not fans but cold critics of the new western consumer society that was taking shape by 1960. Then along came Hockney. A childhood in the smoke-blackened industrial lan...

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