their own lives. Yet art scholars have not analyzed a parallel practice in the visual arts, in which painters and sculptors … nineteenth century, and it subsequently influenced a diverse group of major artists, including such conceptual artists as Edvard … Munch, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, and Tracey Emin, and the experimental artists Francis Bacon …

There have been two very different life cycles for important modern artists: some, including Picasso, have made their …. Understanding the careers of modern artists therefore leads to a deeper understanding of the life cycles of human creativity in …

There have been two very different life cycles for great modern artists: some have made their major contributions early … with different artistic goals and working methods: artists who peak late are motivated by aesthetic considerations and work … by trial and error, whereas artists who peak early are motivated by conceptual concerns and plan their work in advance …

puzzle: why do some of the greatest artists not produce famous paintings, and why do some relatively minor artists produce … experimental and conceptual painters. Experimental artists work incrementally, their innovations appear gradually, and they … generally do their best work late in their careers; conceptual artists innovate more suddenly, produce individual breakthrough …

auction records, we estimate the relationship between artists' ages and the value of their paintings for two successive … cohorts of modern American painters. We find that a substantial decline occurred over time in the age at which these artists …

The recent history of modern art provides clues as to how important artists can be identified before their work becomes … education in the training of leading artists has also increased during this period. A few schools have been particularly … identify important artists before they become widely recognized, and therefore before their early innovative work rises in …

In this paper I use a large data set to analyze two aspects of the Latin American arts: (1) the nature of artistic … artists' age and the value of their work. The analysis on creativity suggests that Latin American artists have followed very … different patterns from that followed by U.S. artists. There is strong evidence suggesting that American artists born after 1920 …