"A persistently high demand for artistic innovation has produced a regime in which conceptual approaches have predominated," Mr. Galenson wrote in a paper. "The art world has consequently been flooded by a series of new ideas, usually embodied in individual works, generally made by young artists who have failed to make more than one significant contribution in their careers."
"David Galenson, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, has been using the prices of artworks at auction to study patterns of creativity. His findings include useful insights into what makes art valuable. For instance, collectors might think again before paying big prices for late pieces by Pop artists. Their most expensive and critically acclaimed work, according to Mr. Galenson's analysis, was done at the beginning of their careers, when the breakthrough idea that took them to the top - the mechanical reproduction of serial images, for example, or blowing up cartoon frames - was still fresh. The Abstract Expressionists, on the other hand, might be better bought old - once they have experimented enough."
Well, duh. I'm afraid to read any further. We Americans think we can apply scientific reasoning to everything, as an alternative to say, cracking an art history book.
Or, put another way, this clown has a fantasy of combining his interest in art with his boring day job, and the newspaper is indulging him.
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- bill 12-01-2004 6:35 pm
"David Galenson, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, has been using the prices of artworks at auction to study patterns of creativity. His findings include useful insights into what makes art valuable. For instance, collectors might think again before paying big prices for late pieces by Pop artists. Their most expensive and critically acclaimed work, according to Mr. Galenson's analysis, was done at the beginning of their careers, when the breakthrough idea that took them to the top - the mechanical reproduction of serial images, for example, or blowing up cartoon frames - was still fresh. The Abstract Expressionists, on the other hand, might be better bought old - once they have experimented enough."
Well, duh. I'm afraid to read any further. We Americans think we can apply scientific reasoning to everything, as an alternative to say, cracking an art history book.
- tom moody 12-01-2004 7:37 pm [add a comment]
Or, put another way, this clown has a fantasy of combining his interest in art with his boring day job, and the newspaper is indulging him.
- tom moody 12-01-2004 7:45 pm [add a comment]