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1 Hughes, Robert Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Penguin Group USA 1992 014016524X / 9780140165241 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 
Near-fine copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers show light wear (NO tears). tight spine, clean pages. Pages show light tanning. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 429 pages. Annotation The most controversial art critic in America--author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New--looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists from the past to the present. Hughes evokes and defines the essences, works and worlds of a wide range of artists. Publishers Weekly: Time 's art critic assesses four centuries of Western art. 
Price: 4.28 USD
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2 Hughes, Robert The Fatal Shore
Alfred A Knopf Inc 1987 0394506685 / 9780394506685 Hard Cover Fine Fine 
Like-new condition. Appears unread. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. March 1987 printing. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 688 pages. Illustrated. - Annotation "...In his marvelous new history, he brings convict Australia to life both in his own words and those of its inhabitants..."--Chicago Sun Times From the Publisher The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps. From The Critics Publishers Weekly Hughes, art critic at Time, offers a vast and entertaining history of his native land's early years as a ``thief colony,'' i.e., the place to which, beginning in 1788, Britain transported some 160,000 convicts. ``The book abounds with stories of these exiles,'' PW wrote. (February) Library Journal For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation System, the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the colonies, and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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3 Hughes, Robert The Fatal Shore
Alfred A Knopf Inc 1987 0394506685 / 9780394506685 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. 688 pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Annotation "...In his marvelous new history, he brings convict Australia to life both in his own words and those of its inhabitants..."--Chicago Sun Times From the Publisher The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps. From The Critics Publishers Weekly Hughes, art critic at Time, offers a vast and entertaining history of his native land's early years as a ``thief colony,'' i.e., the place to which, beginning in 1788, Britain transported some 160,000 convicts. ``The book abounds with stories of these exiles,'' PW wrote. (February) Library Journal For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation System, the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the colonies, and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind. 
Price: 5.00 USD
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