LOOKING AT PICTURES IN A BOOK The Artist's Eye

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Pictorial card covers with a pocket to the rear holding 8 postcards of paintings from The National Gallery. 25 pages. With black and white photographs and reproductions of paintings throughout. A very good copy, the binding firm, a little light spotting around the spine and some dustiness to the covers, primarily to the rear. The contents, with some very light spotting to the text block edges and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout. The postcards are all present and in fine condition.

Inscribed by Hockney on the front free endpaper, reading "for Paul / love / david H". A postcard book coinciding with the 1981 The Artist's Eye exhibition at The National Gallery, containing Hockney's accompanying essay on the act of looking at paintings. A significant amount of the essay is spent arguing in favour of the value of reproductions, including cheap reproductions, of art, and detailing Hockney's own personal enjoyment of art postcards.