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The Quality Instinct
Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye
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2012
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-933253-67-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-7682-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
226
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION : How I See It No access Pages 1 - 8
CHAPTER I : An Apprenticeship in Seeing No access Pages 9 - 32
CHAPTER II : Defining Quality in Art No access Pages 33 - 54
CHAPTER III : How to See: The Detective’s Reflex No access Pages 55 - 84
CHAPTER IV : On Originality No access Pages 85 - 106
CHAPTER V : Crafted with Skill No access Pages 107 - 130
CHAPTER VI : Confident in Subject or Theme No access Pages 131 - 150
CHAPTER VII : Compositional Coherence No access Pages 151 - 170
CHAPTER VIII : Memorable for the Viewer No access Pages 171 - 192
CHAPTER IX : Finding Quality in the Art of Our Time No access Pages 193 - 212
CHAPTER X : Art and Muscle No access Pages 213 - 219
