A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

This 47-minute collaboration between artist David Hockney and director Philip Haas has Hockney doing one of the things he loves best: overturning all of our ideas about art and art history. Hockney leads us through a Qing dynasty scroll depicting a trip up the Grand Canal. What interests him most is the lack of single-point perspective in the Western mode.