Catherine Cusset - Life of David Hockney
Crédit artiste : © David Hockney | Crédit photographique : © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Marc Domage
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- Date
- 19 June 2025 – 6:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Duration
- 1h
To coincide with the "David Hockney 25" exhibition, author Catherine Cusset offers a performance reading of her work "Vie de David Hockney" (“Life of David Hockney”) in the Auditorium.
“Paint what matters to you.” Vie de David Hockney
Illustrated with the painter’s works, this book is an opportunity to rediscover the novel published in 2018 as part of the Blanche collection (Gallimard).
This immersion in the world of the English painter – through words, images and music – traces the journey of a great artist in search of life, through his successes, doubts and exploration, from his childhood in Bradford to his older age in Normandy by way of California, his first loves and the AIDS years.
This performance reading will be in French only and followed by a book signing.
Catherine Cusset
Though born in Paris, Catherine Cusset lived in New York for thirty years and taught French literature at Yale University. She is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Le problème avec Jane (Grand Prix littéraire des Lectrices Elle 2000), Family Hatred, Un brillant avenir (Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2008), L’autre qu’on adorait (Finalist for the Prix Goncourt 2016), Life of David Hockney: A Novel (Prix Anaïs Nin 2018), and La définition du bonheur.
Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Her latest book, Ma vie avec Marcel Proust, was published by Gallimard in March 2025.
