A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen / David Hockney & Martin Gayford.
A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen / David Hockney & Martin Gayford.
A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen / David Hockney & Martin Gayford.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Abrams, 2016.
Call Numbers
GQ 2017/279
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
360 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 t...
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Publisher
New York : Abrams, 2016.
Date Published
2016.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
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 m...
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Full title
A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen / David Hockney & Martin Gayford.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
GQ 2017/279
Record Identifier
74VKVR8yMkWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVR8yMkWy
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ISBN
9781419722752
DDC
759
MMS ID
991024075217302626
