Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd; 01 edition (6 Oct. 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500239495
ISBN-13: 978-0500239490
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 3.4 x 27.9 cm
图画的制作已经有一段很长的历史，或许可以追溯到100000年前，一个非洲贝壳作为油漆调色板的时代。三分之二已经是无迹可寻的了，因为我们所知的最早的图像是从大约40000年前。这40000年来都发生了什么？探讨霍克尼和Martin Gayford，他们无介质的特权、时间、风格？但是，在这本书的16章中，讨论图画为何以及如何出现，疾呼将'艺术'与人类技能和人类需求相结合。
每一章都涉及一个重要的问题：当我们试图在两个维度中表达现实时，会发生什么？为什么是“蒙娜丽莎”漂亮？为什么阴影的运用很少在中国、日本和波斯绘画中出现？为什么光学投影总是要比高清电视更美丽？图像的制作者如何描绘运动？是什么使一个平面上的标记那么有趣？
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 medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16 chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made, and insistently link ‘art’ to human skills and human needs.
Each chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the ‘Mona Lisa’ beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese, Japanese and Persian painting? Why are optical projections always going to be more beautiful than HD television can ever be? How have the makers of images depicted movement? What makes marks on a flat surface interesting?
Energized by two lifetimes of looking at pictures, combined with a great artist’s 70-year experience of experimentation as he makes them, this profoundly moving and enlightening volume will be the art book of the decade.
