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A History Of Pictures - From the Cave to the Computer Screen (Paperback, New Edition)
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A History Of Pictures - From the Cave to the Computer Screen (Paperback, New Edition)
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'I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly
fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times 'Enormously good-humoured
and entertaining... Hockney asks big questions about the nature of
picture-making and the relationship between painters and
photography in a way that no other contemporary artists seems to.'
Andrew Marr, New Statesman A new, compact edition of David Hockney
and Martin Gayford's brilliantly original book, with a revised
final chapter and three entirely new Hockney artworks Informed and
energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with
cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin
Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the
millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do
you show movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films
and television connect with old masters? Juxtaposing a rich variety
of images - a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock
print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a
Velazquez painting - the authors cross the normal boundaries
between high culture and popular entertainment, and make unexpected
connections across time and media. Building on Hockney's
groundbreaking book Secret Knowledge, they argue that film,
photography, painting and drawing are deeply interconnected.
Insightful and thought provoking, A History of Pictures is an
important contribution to our appreciation of how we represent our
reality. This new edition has a revised final chapter with some of
Hockney's latest works, including the stained-glass window in
Westminster Abbey.
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