Ebook {Epub PDF} A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen Hardcover – Illustrated, Octo by David Hockney (Author), Martin Gayford (Author)Cited by: 1.  · David Hockney is one of the world’s most popular painters and the author of the bestselling Secret Knowledge:Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters (). He lives in Los Angeles. Martin Gayford’s many books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a PortraitbyLucian Freud () and Rendez-vous with Art, with Philippe de Montebello ().Brand: ABRAMS. In fact, Hockney argues, whether they are made by brush, camera or digital program, and no matter if they are on cave walls or computer screens, first and foremost they are all pictures. And for us to understand how we see the world around us - and hence ourselves - what is needed is a history of pictures. This is that book.

David Hockney is one of the world's most popular painters and the author of the bestselling Secret Knowledge:Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters (). He lives in Los Angeles. Martin Gayford's many books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a PortraitbyLucian Freud () and Rendez-vous with Art, with Philippe de Montebello (). A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen [Hockney, David, Gayford, Martin] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen. A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen () by David Hockney and Martin Gayford "David's (and my) point in A History of Pictures is that the problems of depicting a.

Readers who thrilled to Hockney’s Secret Knowledge know that he has an uncanny ability to get into the minds of artists. In A History of Pictures 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. ‘Pictures are all around us: on laptops, phones, in magazines, newspapers, books and even — still — hanging on walls,’ write David Hockney and Martin Gayford in the introduction to their new book, A History of Pictures — From the Cave to the Computer Screen (Thames Hudson). The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps , 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, years ago. But what a 40, years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book.