Introduction • The Visual Evidence • The Textual Evidence The Correspondence • Endmatter
'A remarkable book ... Hockney has, just by looking, changed the history of art' Andrew Marr
David Hockney (1937-2026) was one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He produced work in almost every medium - painting, drawing, stage design, photography and printmaking - and stretched the boundaries of all of them. His groundbreaking Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters is published by Thames & Hudson, as are his books in partnership with Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message (2011), A History of Pictures (2016) and Spring Cannot be Cancelled (2021). Thames & Hudson also published the catalogue of his blockbuster exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2025.
The most talked-about art book of the year
*Sunday Times*
It will change our views of Western painting
*London Review of Books*
Hockney has utterly transformed the scope and basis of the
debate... He is making us look at things afresh
*Martin Kemp, University of Oxford*
Hockney is a superb communicator, his prose as lithe and vivid as
his own pencil line
*Guardian*
Sparkling, brilliantly analysed treatise on the use of optics in
art and one of the most important books on painting published in
the last 100 years
*State magazine*
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