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The most talked-about art book of the year－ Sunday Times 

David Hockney’s bold theory has turned the world upside down. – Smithsonian Magazine 

It is only Hockney’s own talent for looking that has helped to produce this fascinating, and possibly seminal, study. David L. Sweet, – Art in America 

This amazing, powerful, delightful, and beautiful book ... has such a wonderful intensity of seeing and thinking. This is my favourite art history work. – Edward R. Tufte, Yale University 

If you are interested in the relation of painting to photography, this is probably the most immediate, direct, relevant and meaningful text yet written on the subject. – Royal Photographic Society Journal 

Secret Knowledge will change the terms of art historical debate. – Royal Academy Magazine 

The delight of Hockney’s book is the stimulus it gives us to look afresh at paintings we know well, to think and see for ourselves....It took a painter to show us. －Peter Robb 

Secret Knowledge在2001年剛出版即引起極大轟動。David Hockney 提出了一個大膽的理論，他主張，文藝復興繪畫之所以寫實（具有一種他稱為「視覺般」的要素），是因為畫家利用透鏡與鏡子把影像投射到畫布或其他材料的表面，然後在投影上描繪。這不僅是個刺激的故事，也招來世界各地主流媒體的關注，並在科學與藝術史界引起激烈辯論。Hockney在最新的增訂版中進一步發展他的論述，首次呈現許多更新、更引人入勝的發現。透過過百幅西洋古典藝術經典畫作為例子，David Hockney以他充滿感染力與熱情的描述，繼續探索文藝復興時期的藝術家到底是如何建立透視圖法與明暗對照法，而他的發現，將激進挑戰西洋藝術傳統的長久觀念。 

David Hockney (1937 - ) 英國藝術家, 現以美國加州為創作基地. 他對六十年代的英國pop art有著舉足輕重的影響。（更多介紹） 

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