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Young Geniuses and Old Masters : The Life Cycles of Great Artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns
Galenson, David W. - 2001
There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very early in their careers, whereas others have produced their best work late in their lives. These two patterns have been associated with different working methods, as art's young...
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Understanding Creativity
Galenson, David W. - 2010
range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …
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As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?
Jones, Benjamin - 2010
Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...
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Innovators : Filmmakers
Galenson, David W. - 2010
followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …
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Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences : Answers and Questions
Galenson, David - 2010
work later in their lives. This contradicts a persistent but mistaken belief that artistic creativity has been dominated by …
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Innovators : Architects
Galenson, David W. - 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Frank Gehry were experimental architects: all worked visually, and arrived at their designs by discovering forms as they sketched. Their styles evolved gradually over long periods, and all three produced the buildings that are generally considered their...
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Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art
Galenson, David - 2009
Art critics and scholars have acknowledged the breakdown of their explanations and narratives of contemporary art in the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth century. This failure is in fact a result of their inability...
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The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century : Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles
Galenson, David - 2008
A survey of textbooks reveals that Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of the twentieth century, followed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The same evidence shows that the greatest architects alive today are Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano. Scholars have long been aware of the...
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Language in Visual Art : The Twentieth Century
Galenson, David - 2008
Words have appeared in visual art since classical times, but until the modern era their use was generally restricted to a few specific functions. In the early twentieth century, the Cubists Braque and Picasso began using words in their paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their...
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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is So Different From the Art of All Earlier Centuries
Galenson, David W. - 2006
art world. A century ago, a great painter could influence nearly all advanced artists, but today it is virtually …
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