Hockney's engaging personality, his quirky but always enlightening ideas about art, and his inexhaustible inventiveness are captured with clear-eyed intelligence and grace in the newest volume in Abbeville's renowned Modern Master Series. Illustrations.

Peter Clothier -- like Hockney a British expatriate living in Southern California -- is a novelist, art critic, and lecturer. His previous writings include two novels -- Dirty-Down and Chiaroscuro -- plus two books of poetry and numerous articles and art reviews.