The Quality Instinct
Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:1st Feb '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
"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)"
ISBN: 9781933253671
Dimensions: 258mm x 185mm x 14mm
Weight: 730g
236 pages