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Article: Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters.(Vermeer's Camera)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, by David Hockney, New York, Viking Studio, 2001; 296 pages, $60.
Vermeer's Camera, by Philip Steadman, New York, Oxford University Press, 2001; 232 pages, $25.
Unless you attended one of his public lectures, you probably first learned about David Hockney's new take on the history of Western painting from Lawrence Weschler's New Yorker article in January 2000, nearly two years before the publication of Hockney's book in the United States. Hockney, whose suave works chronicling the poolside hedonism of postscarcity society earned him a place at the forefront of the Pop and neo-realist ...