Old masters and young geniuses: the two life cycles of artistic creativity

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List of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: Theory 4 Experimental and Conceptual Innovators 4 Archetypes 5 Planning, Working, and Stopping 11 Innovation and Age: Old Masters and Young Geniuses 14 Artists, Scholars, and Art Scholars 15 CHAPTER 2: Measurement 21 Quantifying Artistic Success 21 Prices 21 Textbook Illustrations 25 Examples: Ten Important Modern Painters 27 Retrospective Exhibitions 33 Examples: Ten Important American Painters 35 Museum Collections 40 Museum Exhibition 42 Measuring Careers 44 CHAPTER 3: Extensions 47 The Spectrum of Approaches 47 Can Artists Change? 56 Anomalies 61 CHAPTER 4: Implications 67 Masters and Masterpieces 67 The Impressionists'Challenge to the Salon 71 Masterpieces without Masters 73 Contrasting Careers 80 Conflicts 82 The Globalization of Modern Art 86 CHAPTER 5: Before Modern Art 94 CHAPTER 6: Beyond Painting 111 Sculptors 111 Poets 122 Novelists 134 Movie Directors 149 CHAPTER 7: Perspectives 162 Portraits of the Artist as an Experimental or Conceptual Innovator 162 Portraits of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator 166 Psychologists on the Life Cycles of Creativity 171 Understanding and Increasing Creativity 177 Seekers and Finders 185 Notes 187 Bibliography 207 Index 223