In Paris, two magnificent spectacles have been wowing crowds this summer: the gloriously renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, and a joyous retrospective of British artist David Hockney’s work at the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum, “David Hockney 25.”

Fortunately for those who can’t make the show, which closes Aug. 31, a beautiful, coffee-table-sized art book, “David Hockney,” edited by Norman Rosenthal, captures much of the visual delight of the artist’s largest exhibition to date, which centers on his output over the past 25 years.

Hockney, who is one of the most popular artists of his time, is best known for paintings of sun-drenched California, which he called his “promised land” after arriving in Los Angeles from London in 1964. With brightly hued swimming-pool paintings like “A Bigger S

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