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A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen / David Hockney & Martin Gayford.
Author
Hockney, David
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Abrams, 2016.
Description
360 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
ND50 .H63 2016
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Pictures
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History
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Painting
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History
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Photography, Artistic
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History
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Painting
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History
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Author
Gayford, Martin, 1952-
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Summary note
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Pictures, art and history
Pictures and reality
Making marks
Shadows and deception
Picturing time and space
Brunelleschi's mirror and Alberti's window
Mirrors and reflections
Renaissance: naturalism and idealism
Paper, paint and multiplying pictures
Painting the stage and staging pictures
Caravaggio and the academy of the lynx-eyed
Vermeer and Rembrandt: the hand, the lens and the heart
Truth and beauty in the Age of Reason
The camera before and after 1839
Photography, truth and painting
Painting with and without photography
Snapshots and moving pictures
Movies and stills
The unending history of pictures.
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ISBN
1419722751 ((hardcover))
9781419722752 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016932042
OCLC
945029395
Other standard number
40026557647
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