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 …

-practicing entities (NPEs) as either "benign middlemen", who help to reallocate IP to where it is most productive, or "stick-up artists …

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 …

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 …

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 …

can equally be made by older, experimental innovators. Yet we have had no examination of why some experimental artists … have remained creative much later in their lives than others. Considering the major artists who worked together during the …. Unlike Pissarro and Renoir, who reacted to adversity in mid-career by attempting to emulate the methods of conceptual artists …