Thursday, May 13, 2004
The Art of Management
I'm making good progress on a new article regarding the relationship between being a good manager and an appreciation for the visual arts. It's based upon my lecture on my essay Total Quality Management in the New millennium," which makes the case that Edward Hopper's paintings can help us understand what Robert Pirsig was saying in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." If this all seems totally far fetched I hope to make it clear as day when I'm finished. I'll of course post it here for your comments.
On the same day (Tuesday, May 11) that I started this project the Wall Street Journal printed a column by Charles Murray which advocated using technology to make low cost high quality visual art reproductions available to the general public. (You must subscribe to the on-line version of the WSJ to view.) He was complaining that the only way to see truly great art was to go to a museum. Murray pointed out, which is true, that today's reproductions often don't really represent what a painting looks like in person. He goes on to comment that we do not know the societal implications of widely available visual art. My article will try and explain this phenomenon.
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On the same day (Tuesday, May 11) that I started this project the Wall Street Journal printed a column by Charles Murray which advocated using technology to make low cost high quality visual art reproductions available to the general public. (You must subscribe to the on-line version of the WSJ to view.) He was complaining that the only way to see truly great art was to go to a museum. Murray pointed out, which is true, that today's reproductions often don't really represent what a painting looks like in person. He goes on to comment that we do not know the societal implications of widely available visual art. My article will try and explain this phenomenon.
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