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In The Dull Village
''In the dull village'' is an etching and printing, print made by David Hockney in 1966, one of series of illustrations for a selection of Greek poetry, Greek poems written by Constantine P. Cavafy. It depicts two men lying next to each other in bed, naked from the waist up, with their lower halves covered by bedclothes. History Cavafy was a Greek poet who was born in Alexandria in 1863. He spent several years in Liverpool in his youth, and later in Constantinople, but spent most of his life in the city of his birth. Many of Cavafy's poems are inspired by the Hellenistic era, and he is one of the earliest modern authors to write openly about homosexuality. Cavafy died in 1933, four years before Hockney was born. The young Hockney discovered Cavafy's poetry in the 1950s, and stole a copy of his poems from the local library in Bradford. Several of Hockney early works are inspired by Cavafy's poems, including the 1961 prints ''Kaisarion and all his beauty'', of Caesarion, based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Dull Village - David Hockney 1967
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