Hockney's poolside muse A biography captures the hedonism, sunshine and high-flying social circles that inspired the artist in 1960s California. By Christian House hen David Hockney died earlier this year, tributes praised the Bradford-born painter for achieving that rare art-world hat-trick: he was admired by critics, his works sold for millions and the public adored him. Hockney’s life and work …
books Eh ear an Ia NE Meet Hockney''s real housewife of Beverly Hills - Book of the week Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool, the art historian James Cahill offers both an attentively close reading television one evening, Hockney saw an advert for Lady Clairol hair dye. “Blondes have more fun. Doors open for in the converted garage of a run-down house in a particularly seedy part of Los…
How Film Became History By Thomas Doherty Columbia, 280 pages, $28 By PETER TONGUETTE N A VISIT to Berlin, in Febru- ary 1933, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. wrote about his impressions for Script magazine. “Germany today is a fortress... . Every- where are troops.” Despite his family’s immense wealth, Vanderbilt aspired to be a journalist. But he did more than write. “While mid-Europeaning,” he later r…
aron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the most influential contemporary analyst of the links among economics, technology and politics. In 2024, he won the Nobel Prize in eco- nomics for his path-breaking work on political economy, together with two of his co-authors, James A Robinson of the University of Chicago and Simon Johnson of MIT. Acemoglu’s most recent book is timel…
After the genocide An unflinching exploration of a nation’s violent past and enduring generational scars. By Lucy Popescu heshadow of the 1994 geno- cide against the Tutsi peo- ple hangs over Gaél Faye's second novel, Jacaranda, published in French in 2024 and awarded the Prix Renaudot. It opens in a psychiatric hospital in Rwanda where 21-year-old Stella, born after the atrocities, has been inter…
Carlos the Jackal posed as a freedom fighter, but he was a hired killer - and a very inept one. By Gerard DeGroot { killed 83 people by my own hand,” Carlos the Jackal once remarked. “Another thousand were killed on my orders.” As with so much in his life, that was probably an exaggeration. He did, however, undoubtedly enjoy killing. “He was completely indifferent to the lives of others,” a friend…
Rereading Disclosure by Michael Crichton A female tech boss harasses a handsome colleague in this once ‘shocking’ novel. By Libby Purves his stout red 1994 blockbuster — with the words “Sexual dynamite” slapped on the front — surfaced during a bout of spare room tidying. Michael Crichton''’s novel Disclosure is today remembered for the “shocking” suggestion that a woman in an office might use her …
mn Ay Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool, the art historian James Cahill offers both an attentively close reading of the painting and a wider panoramic shot of Hockney’s Los Angeles in the Sixties. Hockney knew the city before his plane touched down. He used to say he had grown up in Bradford and Hollywood. Born in 1937, he had spent his childhood in and out of picture houses such as B…
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re —— Propaganda By Edward Bernays (1928) Ten years after World War I, a decade during which governments began to mobilize public opinion on an unprece- dented scale, Edward Bernays offered “Propaganda,” a remarkably frank guide to mass persuasion. Bernays, a publicity consul- tant who pioneered the idea of a public- relations campaign, opens his book with the claim that “the conscious and intelli…
