David Hockney and Martin Gayford, Los Angeles, August 2014 - Photo Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima © D. Hockney

This exhibition of an unprecedented scale is being held, on the occasion of the 80 years of the English artist, from June 21 to October 23, 2017 at the Center Pompidou (Paris), after the Tate Gallery (London) and before the Metropolitan (New York).

In this book, the artist and the art critic propose through time and techniques a world history of images, that of the representation of the world in three dimensions on flat surfaces, on supports such as canvas, paper. , cinema screens and smartphones. In an intimate dialogue over 18 short chapters punctuated with anecdotes, the authors highlight the continuities and interactions between these various representations to offer everyone a relevant reading, a new approach to the evolution of images, thanks to 341 illustrations. Analyzing a painting by Poussin as well as a portrait of Van Gogh, including a Scorsese film or an antique bas-relief, they show in particular that linear perspective is not the only representative of reality, or even that the photography is the child of painting.

This global history of images from prehistoric times to today offers an erudite and stimulating conversation between one of the major artists of our time, David Hockney, and the great art critic, Martin Gayford. An invitation to follow David Hockney in his studio and those of many other artists, to discover behind the scenes of the creation of yesterday and today… The possibility of training his eye in a playful way, with erudition! This publication is aimed as much at art lovers, students as the curious ...

Pratical information

A history of images
From cave to computer screen
Authors: David Hockney and Martin Gayford
Translator: Pierre Saint-Jean
360 pages
341 pictures
ISBN : 978-2-263-14587-2
Format: 216 X 279 cm
Shaping: cardboard

Price: 39 €

Publication: June 15, 2017

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