A History of Pictures - by David Hockney & Martin Gayford (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book. They privilege no medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16 chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made, and insistently link 'art' to human skills and human needs. Each chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the 'Mona Lisa' beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese, Japanese and Persian painting? Why are optical projections always going to be more beautiful than HD television can ever be? How have the makers of images depicted movement? What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? Energized by two lifetimes of looking at pictures, combined with a great artist's 70-year experience of experimentation as he makes them, this profoundly moving and enlightening volume will be the art book of the decade.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford, he explores the many ways that artists have pictured the world, sharing sparkling insights and ideas that will delight every art lover and art maker. Readers who thrilled to Hockney's <i>Secret Knowledge</i> know that he has an uncanny ability to get into the minds of artists. In <i>A History of Pictures</i> he covers far more ground, getting at the roots of visual expression and technique through hundreds of images--from cave paintings to frames from movies--that are reproduced. It's a joyful celebration of one of humanity's oldest impulses.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Hockney</b> is one of the world's most popular painters and the author of the bestselling <i>Secret Knowledge: </i><i>Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters</i> (2001). He lives in Los Angeles. <b>Martin Gayford's</b> many books include <i>Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait</i><i>by</i><i>Lucian Freud </i>(2013) and <i>Rendez-vous with Art</i>, with Philippe de Montebello (2014). He lives in Cambridge, England.
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