The Quality Instinct - Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Informationen zum Autor By Maxwell L. Anderson Klappentext 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. Maxwell 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 yes, to judge.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.

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• Authors: Maxwell L Anderson, Maxwell L. Anderson, Maxwell Lincoln Anderson, ANDERSON MAXWELL L
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9781933253671
• ISBN: 978-1-933253-67-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques