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

A two-author history of image-making that runs from prehistoric cave painting to the pictures on today's screens, written by the painter David Hockney with the critic Martin Gayford.

The book moves through painting, photography, film and digital imaging, asking how each new way of making pictures changed what people see and how they represent reality. Abrams published the US hardcover in October 2016, at 360 pages with 325 color illustrations. The cover is lettered in Hockney's own hand on a drawn blue ground.

Hockney has worked in paintings, drawings, prints, photography and digital media for more than six decades. His earlier book is Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. Gayford is an art critic whose books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud.