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內容簡介 大衛．霍克尼談觀看：藝術、創造力與世界的對話全球最受歡迎的當代藝術家之一──大衛．霍克尼，與知名藝術評論家馬丁．蓋福德的經典對談集，帶領讀者深入探索創造力、觀看方式與藝術本質。為什麼繪畫能讓人「看得更清楚，而且愈來愈清楚」？從史前洞穴壁畫到數位 iPad，媒材如何改變我們理解世界的方式？當三維世界被轉化為平面圖像，藝術家究竟在描繪什麼，又如何重新定義真實？書中透過一場場充滿智慧與幽默的對話，梳理霍克尼畢生對觀看與再現的思索，也延伸談論梵谷、維梅爾、卡拉瓦喬、莫內、畢卡索等藝術巨匠，以及他在加州與故鄉約克郡之間的生活經驗，更穿插與卡蒂耶－布列松、比利．懷德等人的精彩軼事。這不只是一本談繪畫的書，更是一場關於「如何觀看、如何思考、如何創造」的深刻對話，帶你重新發現藝術，也重新認識眼前的世界。 The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity.David Hockney is possibly the world’s most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art.This now classic book details the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one "see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still," as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media―from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad―have for the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? How have changes in technology affected the way artists depict the world?The conversations in this volume with writer and art critic Martin Gayford are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists―Van Gogh or Vermeer, Caravaggio, Monet, Picasso―and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney lived for many years, and Yorkshire, his birthplace. Some of the people he has encountered along the way―from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder―also make entertaining appearances in the dialogue.
