HOCKNEY, David The Blue Guitar. London: Petersburg Press. 1977.
4to. Publisher’s grey boards, image stamped to boards, illustrated dust-jacket retaining price of £5.50, beige endpapers; pp. 51 [1]; fine.
”Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso.”
First edition, first impression.
In this book, Wallace Stevens’s 1936 poem The Man with the Blue Guitar is printed alongside David Hockney’s interpretive etchings, creating a sustained dialogue between Stevens’s modernist verse and Hockney’s visual responses.
SKU: 2124292