1. Pictures, Art and History 2. Pictures and Reality 3. Making Marks 4. Shadows 5. Picturing Space and Time 6. Brunelleschi’s Window and Alberti’s Mirror 7. Mirrors and Reflections 8. Paper, Paint and Multiplying Pictures 9. Painting the Stage and Staging Paintings 10. Caravaggio and the Academy of the Lynx-Eyed 11. Vermeer and Rembrandt: the Hand, the Lens and the Heart 12. Truth and Beauty in the Age of Reason 13. The Camera Before and After 1839 14. Photography, Truth and Painting 15. Painting with and without Photography 16. Snapshots and Moving Pictures 17. Movies and Stills 18. The Unending History of Pictures
A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford's brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney artworks
David Hockney (1937-2026) was one of the most influential
British artists of the 20th century. He produced work in almost
every medium - painting, drawing, stage design, photography and
printmaking - and stretched the boundaries of all of them. His
groundbreaking Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques
of the Old Masters is published by Thames & Hudson, as are his
books in partnership with Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message (2011),
A History of Pictures (2016) and Spring Cannot be Cancelled (2021).
Thames & Hudson also published the catalogue of his blockbuster
exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2025.
Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of
acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the
author of Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art and A Bigger
Message. He has collaborated with David Hockney on A Bigger Message
and A History of Pictures, and has co-written a volume of travels
and conversations with Philippe de Montebello: Rendez-vous with
Art.
A magic flight of a book ... It's a measure of Hockney's vividness
of perception that he can always put a cap on Gayford's knowledge
... Fabulous!
*Clive James, Guardian*
Enormously good-humoured and entertaining... Hockney asks big
questions about the nature of picture-making and the relationship
between painters and photography in a way that no other
contemporary artist seems to
*Andrew Marr, New Statesman*
An eloquent conversational testimony to the vividness of life lived
through intelligent looking. You will see Caravaggio and Citizen
Kane with fresh eyes
*Daily Telegraph*
Crisps up perceptions and help readers to look anew
*The Times*
Take a deep dive into [Hockney's] truly remarkable brain ...
Riffing with friend and expert art historian Martin Gayford,
Hockney draws upon the deep tissues that connect Disney and
Hiroshige, Velázquez and Eisenstein, illuminating the power of the
image with a mind-bendingly original light. It will transform your
relationship to pictures
*AnOther*
Hockney and Gayford delve into how and why images are created,
offering critical and creative insights throughout
*Aesthetica*
Serendipitous... beautifully illustrated with many hundreds of
pictures and photographs, this lively exchange between two of our
leading art exponents is both instructive and entertaining
*Yorkshire Times*
Fascinating and eloquent
*Arts & Collections*
Groundbreaking
*Choice*
Absorbing and fascinating
*Shiny New Books*
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