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 …

How can minor artists produce major works of art? This paper considers 13 modern visual artists, each of whom produced … a single masterpiece that dominates the artist's career. The artists include painters, sculptors, and architects, and … that the artists formulated early in their careers, and fully embodied in individual works. The phenomenon of the artistic …

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 …

, but since the Renaissance nearly all artists were constrained in the degree to which they could innovate by the need to … rise of a competitive market for art in the late nineteenth century removed this constraint, and gave advanced artists an … unprecedented freedom to innovate. Conspicuous innovation subsequently became necessary for important modern art. All artists …

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 …

canvases. Today many leading artists do not touch their own paintings, and some never see them. This paper traces the … assistants to produce their paintings, but artists began exploring its logical limits during the conceptual revolution of the …

Jackson Pollock as the greatest American artist, by a narrow margin over Andy Warhol. The 15 greatest artists of the century …

and artistic importance. This paper identifies all living artists who have executed at least one work that has sold at … greatest artists: the leaders in these tables, including Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, and … Jeff Koons, are clearly among the most important artists alive today. This study also underscores the fact that the most …

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 …