How to Visit an Art Museum: Tips for a Truly Rewarding Visit
Tips for a Truly Rewarding Visit
$46.94
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2014
Summary
French painter Renoir suggests the only way to understand art is to go to a museum and look at it. But once inside, this is easier said than done. What do you do when the label simply reads “Untitled, 1973”? Where to look when a painting offers you a picturesque but undisguised view of a giant vagina? And how to react, when the museum guard stares at you for far too long?
How to Visit an Art Museum offers fresh perspectives on how to behave once inside the museu…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789063693558 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9063693559 |
| Author: | Johan Idema |
| Publisher: | BIS Publishers B.V. |
| Imprint: | BIS Publishers B.V. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Idema challenges us to shape our own view, rather than to necessarily agree with him. After all, sparking the right questions is much more inspiring than providing clear-cut answers.”
- Wim Pijbes, General Director Rijksmuseum
About The Author
Johan Idema
Johan Idema is a passionate promoter of innovation in the art world. He works as a cultural entrepreneur, writer and director for the foundation Art Public. Idema has extensive experience as an arts consultant and has worked at several cultural institutions, including as chief curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam). Idema is the initiator of, among others, the theatrical art exhibition The Big Art Show and the award-winning classical music app Wolfgang. Idema obtained master degrees in Arts Administration at New York University and Innovation Management at TU Delft. He was awarded an oeuvre prize as ‘New Radical’, in the Netherlands, where Idema is based.
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