Paper Pools
"Hockney's own delight in the discovery and use of new techniques is what makes this latest book on the remarkably talented and successful English artist so delightful to the reader/viewer. The irresistibly cheerful works that the artist has dubbed Paper Pools were produced in the summer of 1978 at Tyler Graphics, a workshop near New York City. To make them, the artist 'drew' with colored paper pulp on handmade paper; when pressed and dried, the pulp merged with the paper, with the image not on it but in the paper fiber itself. Fusing papermaking and painting, the Paper Pools have been hailed not only as a new departure for Hockney but as a genuine tour de force."--