About this title: David Hockney takes us on an enthralling intellectual and visual journey as he rewrites the story of how the great drawings and paintings of the last six centuries were created. He demonstrates for the first time how artists as far back as the 15th century used mirrors and lenses to project colour images onto flat surfaces and then captured these projections in pencil and paint. As well as being the presentation of more than two years' research, Secret Knowledge is an amazing detective story, as Hockney uncovers piece after piece of scientific and historical evidence, each one revealing ...
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Edition: 2 REV ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: THAMES & HUDSON LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780500286388ISBN:0500286388
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 328 pages. (328 pages) 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. 510 illustrations, 442 in colour edition 2 rev ed (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition (first printing)
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Viking Studio, New York
Date Published: 2001
Description: Very Good jacket. Ex-Library An ex-library copy in original black cloth of this large art volume, in an attractive Very Good dust jacket with damping at the bottom edge of the rear panel. The damping is faint against the brown jacket background, and does not affect the book. Internal ownership stamps, no card pocket, no external markings. There are scuffs at the outer edges of the inside of the front covers, hidden by the jacket flaps. The binding is sound and the contents are clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2001
Description: As New in As New jacket. Rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters. 296 pp. with 460 illustrations, 402 in color. Hundreds of paintings and drawings are reproduced and accompanied by accessible descriptions. Shows interesting techniques undertaken by the masters, plus more. read more
Edition: 1st US Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Studio/Penguin Group, Toronto and England
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780670030262ISBN:0670030260
Description: 460 illustrations, 402 in Color. Fine in Fine jacket. Folio. 296pp. Color illustrated dust jacket, black cloth binding. read more
Description: New. A story of how some of the great works of Western art were created with the help of mirrors and lenses and how the optical look came to dominate painting attracted major media attention around the world and generated intense debate in the fields of sc... read more
Description: Hardcover, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in poor all round condition, suitable as a reading copy. pp., 2100grams, ISBN: 0500237859. read more
Description: New. 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. read more
Description: Good. 0142005126 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
Description: New. 0142005126 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
I love controversy especially when it targets the art world, when it stirs up the way we perceive and look at great masterful works of art; when it throws a whole new massive spanner into the works.
Optics or eyeballed?
That is the question.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I savoured it because of the artwork and the new light shining on them. (I still find myself today picking it up to satisfy a looming question, checking out uncertainties.)
The author has written a good book without long and technically soporific dissertations but with, beautifully illustrated examples and to the point explanations. I found it thrilling in its controversy and inspiring through the art portayed.
Interesting questions are raised, convincing points of view given. We (the reader, the artist) are pushed to draw our own conclusions.
A good read to open your mind to the shadows lurking behind the art world, more than a theory on how great art could have been created. Intrigued, you should be, I know I was!"
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