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Frank Auerbach - Drawings of People by Mark Hallett (Editor); Catherine Lampert (Editor)
Category: Art
The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic artThis book offers an original approach to one of Britain's leading artists: Frank Auerbach (b. 1931). It looks in detail at his portrait drawings, which Auerbach has been ...Show more
George Shaw - A Corner of a Foreign Field by Mark Hallett
Category: Art and Photography
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011, George Shaw (b. 1966) is one of Britain's leading contemporary painters, best known for his painstakingly detailed, luminous, and often elegiac representations of the British suburban landscape. Beautifully designed and generously illustrated, this book is the fir ...Show more
Hogarth by Mark Hallett
Category: Art | Series: Art & Ideas S.
Hogarth (1697-1764) is one of the most versatile, innovative and celebrated of all British artists. He lived at a time when Britain was emerging as an increasingly urbanized, commercialized and aggressively imperial power. His work celebrates the benefits of commerce, politeness and patriotism, while si ...Show more
On the Prowl - In Search of Big Cat Origins by Mark Hallett; John Harris
Category: Nature | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the origins of these iconic carnivores, venturing down the evolutionary pathways that produced the diversity of big cat spe ...Show more
Reynolds: Portraiture in Action by Mark Hallett
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was the most celebrated and innovative British portraitist of the eighteenth century. He was acclaimed for transforming portraiture into an art form that had all the ambition, depth and animation of history painting, and th ...Show more
The Sauropod Dinosaurs - Life in the Age of Giants by Mark Hallett; Mathew J. Wedel
Category: Science
From The Land Before Time to Jurassic Park, images of fantastically large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs have captured our imaginations. These are the sauropods: centerpieces of museums and gentle giants of the distant past. Imagine what it must have been like to crest a hill and see in the valley ...Show more
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