In this witty, candid and revealing account of himself, David Hockney tells of his early years in Bradford, where he was born and grew up, and first went to art school; his years at the Royal College of art, during which he had his breakthrough and first came to public attention; his sojourn in California, which inspired his best-known paintings, drawings and prints. He was in Paris at the time this book was published; an exhibition was recently held at the Louvre, established him as ‘continental master’.