Sobre David Hockney

by Lawrence Weschler

In January, 2000, Lawrence Weschler published an article in The New Yorker about a startling theory advanced by the artist David Hockney: that the Old Masters used lenses and other projection devices to make their paintings—a technique, Hockney argues, that they considered a trade secret. This December, at a public www.artandoptics.com sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, Hockney, Weschler, Gilles Peress, Chuck Close, and others will discuss new evidence that Hockney has uncovered as well as the larger controversy that his assertion has provoked. Hockney's book on the subject, "Secret Knowledge," is available through Viking Studio. The original article appears below.

Watch out! It looks like David Hockney is o another one of his perceptual/conceptual tears...The Looking Glass