LONDON.- Here’s a great idea for your wish list: A Bigger Message – Conversations with David Hockney is a book destined to become a classic. This remarkable new title from Thames & Hudson records a decade of private conversations between David Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford (author of Man with a Blue Scarf). In A Bigger Message, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. The conversation is punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along