A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen /
David Hockney & Martin Gayford.
- 360 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford.