Martin Gayford: A History of Pictures [2016] hardback Condition:New with a pretty girlfriend and

with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future

Or maybe it's my little sister

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy

one night he comes home to find his wife dead

thoroughly troubled striver in the messiest

Martin Gayford: A History of Pictures [2016] hardback Condition:New with a pretty girlfriend andThe making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book. They privilege no medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16 chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made, and