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Pablo Picasso: Masters of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades--and included thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and tapest ...Show more
Pedro Almodovar: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Pedro Almodovar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrilena in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics ("Women ...Show more
Quentin Tarantino by Scott Foundas
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) is considered the enfant terrible of contemporary cinema. From his outstanding debut at the Sundance Film Festival with 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992) to his most recent controversial war film 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), Tarantino has created a fascinating, violent, and highly ...Show more
Rubens - Masters of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draftsman, as well as a valued diplomat. This accessible examination of his life and work looks at every aspect of Rubens's oeuvre; from his commissioned portraits of royalty and the nobility to his mag ...Show more
Skeletor's Ice Attack by J. Grant
Category: Children's | Series: Masters of the Universe Ser.
Stanley Kubrick: Masters of Cinema Series by Bill Krohn
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1928-99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director, a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25, after which the power and originality ...Show more
Steven Spielberg: Masters of Cinema Series by Clelia Cohen
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Steven Spielberg (USA, born 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation of the studios. As a fan of special effects, and entirely attuned to the shift to ...Show more
The Counterfeit Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath
Category: Romantic Fiction | Series: The\Chessmen: Masters of Seduction Ser.
New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath begins a compelling new spin-off series, The Chessmen: Masters of Seduction, centering around three heroes--Knight, Bishop, and Rook--who play to win at any cost. Born into an aristocratic family, yearning for a life beyond Society's strictures, Margu ...Show more
The Notorious Lord Knightly - A Novel by Lorraine Heath
Category: Romance | Series: The\Chessmen: Masters of Seduction Ser.
Who is the villainous Lord K New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath's next novel in The Chessmen: Masters of Seduction series where revenge is best served hot... A scandalous book by an anonymous author takes London by storm, and everyone is convinced its villainous "Lord K" is the greatly ...Show more
The October Horse by Colleen McCullough
Category: Fiction | Series: Masters of Rome Ser.
Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is a man whose greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. Hardback
Tim Burton: Masters of Cinema Series by Aurelien Ferenczi
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged as a directo ...Show more
Toulouse Lautrec by Douglas Cooper
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
The forty stunning colorplates in this volume are brilliant demonstrations of Toulose-Lautrec's virtuosity. The text, liberally illustrated with both reproductions of his works and documentary photographs, gives a graphic and sensitive account of the artists's life and work.