A HISTORY OF IMAGES. From the cave to the computer screen.

Discover the power of images through time

Drawing on the experience and enthusiasm of a lifetime of painting, drawing, and camera-based imagery, David Hockney, in a stimulating conversation with art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why images have been created over the millennia. Juxtaposing a rich variety of images, the authors cross the usual boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment, establishing unexpected connections across time and media. With a revised concluding chapter featuring some of Hockney's later work, this critically acclaimed book will encourage us to see familiar paintings as if we were seeing 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? However, 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 die of hunger; without art, they die of boredom.” Antonio Muñoz Molina, Babelia, El Pais