Artistic Greatness by Thomas R. McBurney

Artistic Greatness
by Thomas R. McBurney

ISBN: 1–880090–78–3
Size: 6 x 9 • 384 pgs.
Price: $24.95

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Why are some artists and musicians held up as Great while others are merely considered good? Artistic Greatness examines the intimate details of the lives of three of the world’s greatest artistic geniuses to provide an answer. What did these men have in common? Part history, part biography, and part sociological chronicle, Artistic Greatness is a work of art in itself.


Thomas R. McBurney has had an extensive arts education, including classes at the British Institute in Florence, research in France, Italy, and Austria plus numerous lectures, interviews and score of books. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a former Chairman of the U.S. Food Division of the Pillsbury Co. McBurnery is currently a management consultant , a member of several corporate boards and an active director of a number of major arts organizations.