Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to … recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances … can equally be made by older, experimental innovators. Yet we have had no examination of why some experimental artists …

environment. The rise of a competitive market for advanced art in the late nineteenth century freed artists from the constraint of … conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their … important individual artists whose work appeared to have no unified style, and to the balkanization of advanced art, as the …

art world. A century ago, a great painter could influence nearly all advanced artists, but today it is virtually … became an inspiration for many other young conceptual artists …

There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very …

This paper considers not only when in their careers the greatest artists of the twentieth century made their greatest … three of the best five-year periods, all for the work the two young artists did in developing Cubism. Warhol%u2019s …. In general, identifying the most important short periods of artistic creativity emphasizes the differing methods of …

followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …

work later in their lives. This contradicts a persistent but mistaken belief that artistic creativity has been dominated by …

There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very …

experimental artists, who were committed to realism, whereas Man Ray and Sherman were conceptual innovators, who constructed images … is characteristic of the almost exclusively conceptual uses that today's advanced artists make of its techniques and …