A revised edition of the influential artist's controversial analysis of alleged technologies used by such masters as Caravaggio, Velázquez, and da Vinci presents a case that they used mirrors and lenses to create highly detailed and realist...
David Hockney delves into the question of how and why artists have used various gadgets--including mirrors and prisms and the camera lucida--to assist their art. Hockney finds evidence that artists have relied on such crutches since the 15t...