大卫•霍克尼（David Hockney）和马丁•盖福德（Martin Gayford）合著的精彩原版书的精简版，对最后一张进行了修订，并收录了三件全新的霍克尼艺术作品。和油画、素描和摄影打了一辈子交道的大卫•霍克尼与艺术评论家马丁•盖福德合作，探索了数千年来图片的产生方式和原因。是什么使平面上的符号变得有趣？如何在静止得图像中显示运动，以及反过来，电影和电视如何与古典名作联系起来？将多张图像并列放置——迪士尼动画的剧照和安藤广重的日本木刻版画放在一起，爱森斯坦电影中的一个场景与Velazquez的绘画放在一起——两位作者跨越了高雅文化与大众娱乐之间的正常界限，并在时间和媒介之间建立了意想不到的联系。

以霍克尼的开创性著作《秘密知识》为基础，他们认为电影，摄影，绘画和素描之间有着密切的联系。有见地和发人深省的《电影史》对我们理解我们如何表现现实的作出了重要贡献。新版本的最后一章经过修订，收录了霍克尼的一些最新作品，包括威斯敏斯特大教堂的彩色玻璃窗。

Wilson, Sunday Times '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 artists seems to.' Andrew Marr, New Statesman 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 Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films and television connect with old masters? Juxtaposing a rich variety of images - a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a Velazquez painting - the authors cross the normal boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment, and make unexpected connections across time and media.

Building on Hockney's groundbreaking book Secret Knowledge, they argue that film, photography, painting and drawing are deeply interconnected. Insightful and thought provoking, A History of Pictures is an important contribution to our appreciation of how we represent our reality. This new edition has a revised final chapter with some of Hockney's latest works, including the stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey.