The Quality Instinct
eBook - ePub

The Quality Instinct

Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Quality Instinct

Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. INTRODUCTION : How I See It
  3. CHAPTER I : An Apprenticeship in Seeing
  4. CHAPTER II : Defining Quality in Art
  5. CHAPTER III : How to See: The Detective’s Reflex
  6. CHAPTER IV : On Originality
  7. CHAPTER V : Crafted with Skill
  8. CHAPTER VI : Confident in Subject or Theme
  9. CHAPTER VII : Compositional Coherence
  10. CHAPTER VIII : Memorable for the Viewer
  11. CHAPTER IX : Finding Quality in the Art of Our Time
  12. CHAPTER X : Art and Muscle