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.
