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book2016

The History of Pictures

Disciplines:
art/art history
culture/visual culture

Summary

A 2016 book by David Hockney and Martin Gayford tracing the history of picture-making from cave paintings to the digital present.

Core Contribution

Provided Nolan with a framework for understanding cinema as part of the long history of human picture-making.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Pictures as optical residue (all pictures — cave paintings, Vermeer, cinema — are attempts to preserve visual experience as a material object)

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Art history surveyVisual culture studies

Allied Works

Secret Knowledge Ways of Seeing

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

No conceptual posterity found.

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