David Hockney's secret knowledge [videorecording] / David Hockney ; a BBC Production ; produced and directed by Randall Wright. ; distributed under license from BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Originally produced in 2001 as a segment of: Omnibus. Narrator, David Hockney.
Summary:
Investigation of how early painters used simple cameras to capture realistic images--400 years before the invention of the photograph. Examines works by Jan Van Eyck, Vermeer, Holbein, Caravaggio and Velázquez. Demonstrates methods using camera lucida, camera obscura and convex mirrors.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)613642896
Locations:
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)
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