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Article: Howard Hodgkin.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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A simple but essential question arises after reading this well-written, well-illustrated monograph: "Who is it for?" It has no gossip, no biography, no judgments; almost nothing about the reception of Howard Hodgkin's work, the slow, sure rise of his reputation, or the peculiar and in some senses isolated position he occupies. It will satisfy neither the art historian's desire for hard-core information nor the common reader's need for accessibility. Hodgkin's dealers may be pleased to see so much of their artist's work "in print," but the attentive reader, at first beguiled by Andrew Graham-Dixon's mellifluous prose, soon notices the omission of Hodgkin's considerable ...