Howard Hodgkin: The Thinking Painter of Embodied Memories

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (born 1932) is a British painter and printmaker. His first solo show was in London in 1962. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, in 1985, he won the Turner Prize, and in 1992, he was knighted. His early paintings tend to be made up of hard-edged curved forms in a limited number of colors. Around the beginning of the 1970s, his style became more spontaneous, with vaguely recognizable shapes presented in bright colors and bold forms. This volume shows Howard Hodgkin as a painter of emotional situations and experienced landscapes.