Product Description: Great Artists introduces readers to some of the worlds most renowned artists. Each biography details the life story and major accomplishments of an artistic master. Stunning visuals and engaging content will bring art history to life in this exciting new series.

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This text provides a review and analysis of the rationale for public support of the arts, its development in the US and the policies and institutions through which public support is provided. The effects of public support in practice - on the major "high-culture" performance arts and disciplines, and on 16 more or less representative organizations - are analyzed, in relation to the expressed goals of the granting authorities, and substantial changes in policy as proposed.

Product Description: Many people consider Winslow Homer to be one of the greatest American painters of the nineteenth century. Readers learn why with this biographical text, which features Homers most famous works, including his widely admired portraits of the sea and sailors...read more

Briefly examines the life and work of the American Impressionist painter, describing and giving examples of her art

This volume contains the papers presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Database Machines. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics including descrip- tions of database machine implementations. analysis of algorithms and database machine components. architectures for knowledge management. recovery and con- currency control issues. and solutions to the 110 bottleneck problem. As at the pre- vious workshops in Florence. San Diego. and Munich. a diverse collection of coun- tries. universities. research labs. and database machine vendors were represented by the authors and conference attendees. Our thanks go to the authors for writing excellent papers and for their efforts in meeting deadlines. to the VLDB Endow- ment for its cooperation. and to MCC for all its support. Finally. as usual. it is our secretaries that really deserve the credit for making the workshop a success. We wish to thank Cerise Blair of MCC for taking care of all the arrangements for the workshop and Sheryl Pomraning of the University of Wisconsin for her help in preparing this proceedings. Haran Boral March 1985 David J. DeWitt Table of Contents Architectures for Knowledge Processing "Associative Processing in Standard and Deductive Databases" K. Hahne, P. Pilgram, D. Schuett, H. Schweppe, G. Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Design and Implementation of Relational Database Machine Delta" T. Kakuta, N. Miyazaki, S. Shibayama, H. Yokota, K. Murakami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Performance Evaluation I "The Equi-Join Operation on a Multiprocessor Database Machine: Algorithms and the Evaluation of their Performance" G. Z. Qadah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Product Description: This volume contains the papers presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Database Machines. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics including descrip- tions of database machine implementations. analysis of algorithms and database machine components...read more

Product Description: Mary Cassatt said, There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one. Though born in Pennsylvania, Cassatt studied traditional art in Europe, but was eventually influenced by the Impressionists and Japanese prints...read more

A Robert F. Sibert Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book AwardAn ALA-ALSC Notable Children's BookWinner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for ChildrenAs a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during W.W.I, Horace filled his notebooks with drawings from the trenches . . . until he was shot. Upon his return home, Horace couldn't lift his right arm, and couldn't make any art. Slowly, with lots of practice, he regained use of his arm, until once again, he was able to paint--and paint, and paint! Soon, people—including the famous painter N. C. Wyeth—started noticing Horace's art, and before long, his paintings were displayed in galleries and museums across the country.Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet team up once again to share this inspiring story of a self-taught painter from humble beginnings who despite many obstacles, was ultimately able to do what he loved, and be recognized for who he was: an artist.From the Hardcover edition.

Product Description: Fantasy helps shape the Golden Age of illustration. In the mid 1920s, Maxfield Parrish was a household name. He was considered the most popular American artist before Norman Rockwell and was credited with helping to develop the future of visual arts in the United States...read more

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A brief biography of the 19th century American artist Winslow Homer.

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A brief biography of Anna Mary Robertson, the artist who was known as Grandma Moses, describes the inspiration behind and development of her paintings.

An introduction to the life and work of the twentieth-century American painter known as Grandma Moses.

Imagines the American modern artist Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses. Reprint.

This text replaces the 4Ps with the Gaps Model of Service Quality which makes explicit the difference between the marketing of goods and the marketing of services. Topics covered include: service quality; measuring service quality; links between marketing and other disciplines; and transforming a product firm into a service firm. The book focuses on customer expectations and perceptions, including customer-based pricing and value-pricing strategies to reflect the way to incorporate the customer into all decisions. Chapters discuss international services marketing and six case studies end the book.