Description
Book SynopsisDemonstrates 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 ContentsIntroduction • The Visual Evidence • The Textual Evidence The Correspondence • Endmatter
