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Secret Knowledge
David Hockney
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Description for Secret Knowledge
Paperback. Demonstrates how Renaissance artists used mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established. Num Pages: 328 pages, 510 illustrations, 442 in colour. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 300 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1906.
The most talked-about art book of the year Sunday Times
It will change our views of Western painting London Review of Books
Hockney has utterly transformed the scope and basis of the debate… He is making us look at things afresh Martin Kemp, University of Oxford
Hockney is a superb communicator, his prose as lithe and vivid as his own pencil line Guardian
Sparkling, brilliantly analysed treatise on the use of optics in art and one of the most important books on painting published in the last 100 years State magazine
... Read more
The most talked-about art book of the year Sunday Times
It will change our views of Western painting London Review of Books
Hockney has utterly transformed the scope and basis of the debate… He is making us look at things afresh Martin Kemp, University of Oxford
Hockney is a superb communicator, his prose as lithe and vivid as his own pencil line Guardian
Sparkling, brilliantly analysed treatise on the use of optics in art and one of the most important books on painting published in the last 100 years State magazine
... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500286388
SKU
V9780500286388
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-13
About David Hockney
David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He has produced work in almost every medium - painting, drawing, stage design, photography and printmaking - and has stretched the boundaries of all of them. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the ... Read more
Reviews for Secret Knowledge
'The most talked-about art book of the year' - Sunday Times 'It will change our views of Western painting' - London Review of Books 'Hockney has utterly transformed the scope and basis of the debate… He is making us look at things afresh' - Martin Kemp, University of Oxford 'Hockney is a superb communicator, his prose as lithe and vivid ... Read more