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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.

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'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

Table of Contents
Introduction • The Visual Evidence • The Textual Evidence The Correspondence • Endmatter

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/09/2006
      ISBN13: 9780500286388, 978-0500286388
      ISBN10: 0500286388
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      '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

      Table of Contents
      Introduction • The Visual Evidence • The Textual Evidence The Correspondence • Endmatter

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