The Quality Instinct
Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
236 pages
978-1-4422-7682-6 (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.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-7682-6 (9781442276826)
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Book
02/2012
American Alliance of Museums
€69.00
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Person
By Maxwell L. Anderson
Content
- The Quality Instinct
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION : How I See It
- CHAPTER I : An Apprenticeship in Seeing
- CHAPTER II : Defining Quality in Art
- CHAPTER III : How to See: The Detective's Reflex
- CHAPTER IV : On Originality
- CHAPTER V : Crafted with Skill
- CHAPTER VI : Confident in Subject or Theme
- CHAPTER VII : Compositional Coherence
- CHAPTER VIII : Memorable for the Viewer
- CHAPTER IX : Finding Quality in the Art of Our Time
- CHAPTER X : Art and Muscle
- INDEX
