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- PEOPLE, Page 45But Is It Art?
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- By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Judging a phone book by its cover has become a popular
- pastime among residents of the British city of Bradford. The
- phone company asked DAVID HOCKNEY, a native son who now lives
- in Los Angeles, to paint his hometown and the greeny Yorkshire
- countryside for its directory. Hockney, whose works can sell
- for more than $2 million, did it for free. Though orders for
- the directory are pouring in -- one Londoner bought 500 copies
- -- many Bradfordians are less than appreciative of the art.
- Among their epithets: "childish" and "monstrous."
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