A HISTORY OF PICTURES

Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the a rt critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface inte resting? How do you show movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films and television connect with old masters?Juxtapos ing a rich variety of images - a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstei n film w...[Read more]