The Quality Instinct
Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye
Will be published approx. on 1. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-1-933253-67-1 (ISBN)
Description
How do we judge what is good in art? Or more to the controversial point, can we judge art?
Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct.
Part personal memoir, part thinking person's guide to the museum, The Quality Instinct is filled with wit and humor, anecdotes, and insights from the author's 30 years in the highly competitive, often contentious art world.
Anderson takes us on a grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics of quality that help us to increase our "visual literacy" as we learn to see, not simply look and judge.
Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct.
Part personal memoir, part thinking person's guide to the museum, The Quality Instinct is filled with wit and humor, anecdotes, and insights from the author's 30 years in the highly competitive, often contentious art world.
Anderson takes us on a grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics of quality that help us to increase our "visual literacy" as we learn to see, not simply look and judge.
Reviews / Votes
"Erudite and entertaining, Maxwell L. Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece." (Daniel Silva, author of The Fallen Angel)"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 259 mm
Width: 182 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
713 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933253-67-1 (9781933253671)
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Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
02/2012
1st Edition
American Alliance Of Museums
€55.99
Available for download
E-Book
02/2012
1st Edition
American Alliance of Museums
€55.99
Available for download
Person
Maxwell L. Anderson is the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.