A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer ScreenA picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can give an account of what we see. But all picture makers face a common problem: how to compress three dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface? The results are often pigeonholed as paintings, photographs or films. Alternatively, they may be sorted by date and style: medieval, Renaissance or baroque. In fact, Hockney argues, whether they are made by brush, camera or digital

a refutation of skepticism

time and time again

Cecil Beaton

Roxy Music followed up their debut with For Your Pleasure

discards it for one of the flesh

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I won't do what you tell me

mind-bending odyssey into personal horror

from the stone age to the atomic age

' and there's no better forum for his sensitive side than the music of Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

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and for Springsteen