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the quality instinct: Seeing art through a museum director's eye
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 i...more
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 i...more
Paperback, first, 226 pages
Published
2012
by AAM Press of the American Association of Museums
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Excellent, excellent, excellent. I wasn't sure what to expect when I decided to read this...but I was quite pleased with the outcome. Anderson does not tell the reader what quality is; rather, he explains what he sees, how he looks at art and artifacts, leading readers to assess for themselves what speaks to them and how to discern for themselves quality. Of course, expertise counts for something, and he bats back and forth the question of objectivity vs. subjectivity, but he leaves the ball in...more
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Wonderful intro on how one can develop a sense for art viewing. Lightly written, yet covers lots of ground. I enjoyed the ride through time, space, personal stories, and pieces of art
I'm very much enjoying this book. I'm a sucker for books by museum directors and this one is well-written, provocative and quite engaging. After taking a connoisseurship course in grad school, the whole concept of quality has become an intriguing topic for me.
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