Books by James Hall

Starting with outlines, composing, and use of solids and hatching, this guide to pen-and-ink drawing progresses to the rendering of still lifes, architecture, and figures for more advanced practitioners.

This book explores the language of symbols in art, showing how paintings, drawings, and sculpture express meaning from everyday hopes and fears to the philosophical and religious aspirations. It includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East.

This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based. Combined here in a single volume are religious, classical, and historical themes, figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry that appeared throughout paintings and sculpture in Western art before and after the Renaissance.

Thomas Lillibridge, the first, moved to Rhode Island in the 1690's. All Lillibridge's in America are thought to be descended from him. In 1715 he moved to what is now called Richmond Connecticut. The dwelling houses he lived in and his descendants after are chronicled. Thomas and other Lillibridge's are buried in the Lillibridge Cemetery on his property. Lillibridges continued to live on this land until the death of Janetta Lillibridge Brown in 1940. Their history gives insight into americas history. The Reverend David Lillibridge, Thomas the first's grandson, "was almost gigantic in frame, and strong mentally and morally as well as physically." Joel Eno. He served in the army during the French and Indian War at age 15 years. Later he moved to Willington, CT where he built a church and was its only Pastor for 55 years. His home is still standing and a National Historic site. David and his descendants history are told along with the history of the Reverend David Lillibridge house.

Maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of today's contemporary artists.

This book consists of 220 logic problems on which students can practice their beginner''s logic skills. At least one solution is provided for each exercise. The point is to provide a vehicle for practice that will not make additional demands on the instructor''s time. In addition, Logic Problems, unlike most other "secondary" texts, does not require the additional purchase of a primary text. It includes sentential and predicate arguments, and employs truth tables, formal proofs, conditional proofs and reductio. Contents: The Apparatus; Sentential Problems; Predicate Problems; Sentential Solutions; Predicate Solutions.

An indispensable handbook for students and general appreciators alike, this redesigned edition includes a new image insert, preface, and index