A Painter’s Visual Excursions
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DAVID HOCKNEY:  Paper Trails
Edited by Shai Baitel
SKIRA. 221 pages, $65.

I WELCOME any chance to see artworks by David Hockney, directly or through printed reproductions; but David Hockney: Paper Trails is not what I had hoped for. The book serves as the catalog for the Modern Art Museum Shanghai’s Hockney exhibition, which opened last June—a fact that explains some of the book’s limitations.

            The curator’s idea was to focus only on Hockney’s “works on paper,” a category meant to include lithography, etching, photo collage, prints made from iPad drawings, and what Hockney calls his “photo drawings.”

Alfred Corn has published eleven books of poems, two novels, and three volumes of critical essays.