The Quality Instinct

Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Maxwell L. Anderson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2012
American Association of Museums (Verlag)
978-1-933253-67-1 (ISBN)

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How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? The author 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 and, yes, even to judge art.

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.

Maxwell L. Anderson is the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.5.2013
Verlagsort	Washington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 258 mm
Gewicht	730 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
ISBN-10	1-933253-67-3 / 1933253673
ISBN-13	978-1-933253-67-1 / 9781933253671
Zustand	Neuware