A HISTORY OF IMAGES. From the cave to the computer screen.
Discover the power of images through time
With the experience and enthusiasm of a lifetime devoted to painting, drawing, and creating images with cameras, David Hockney; in an engaging conversation with art critic Martin Gayford; explores how and why images have been created over the millennia. By juxtaposing a rich variety of images, the authors cross the usual boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment and establish unexpected connections across time and different media. With a revised final chapter featuring some of Hockney’s latest works, this critically acclaimed book invites us to see those paintings we already know as if we were viewing them for the first time.
Includes 310 illustrations to inspire and amaze.
“The history of images begins in caves and ends, for now, on the computer screen. Who knows where it will go in the future? Nevertheless, the challenge remains the same: how to represent the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface.” David Hockney
“Art is as necessary as bread for human beings. Without bread, says Dubuffet, they starve; without art, they die of boredom.” Antonio Muñoz Molina, Babelia, El Pais
