{"id":2552,"date":"2012-05-19T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/05\/19\/ny-times-book-review-david-hockney-a-rakes\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:34:20","slug":"ny-times-book-review-david-hockney-a-rakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/ny-times-book-review-david-hockney-a-rakes","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Book Review &#8211; David Hockney: A Rake\u2019s Progress\u2019 by Christopher Simon Sykes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-16.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-16.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image-16-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo caption: David Hockney with an iPad, which he has used in making some works, this week at an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times has just published a book review of \u201cDavid Hockney: A Rake\u2019s Process,\u201d the first installment of a two-volume biography on Hockney by photographer and writer, Christopher Simon Sykes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The online article can be viewed on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/18\/books\/david-hockney-a-rakes-progress-by-christopher-simon-sykes.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;website. 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