History of Pictures

A compact edition of Hockney and Gayford's brilliantly original book, with updated material and brand-new pieces of art

Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing, and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. Juxtaposing a rich variety of images--a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a Velazquez paint­ing--the authors cross the normal boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment, and argue that film, photography, paint­ing, and drawing are deeply interconnected. Featuring a revised final chapter with some of Hockney's latest works, this new, compact edition of A History of Pictures remains a significant contribution to the discussion of how artists represent reality.


Author: David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 08/11/2020
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9781419750281
ISBN10: 1419750283
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Photography | General
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism

About the Author
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 (2001). Martin Gayford is an art critic and the author of many books, including Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2013) and Rendez-vous with Art, with Philippe de Montebello (2014).