CONTENTS

List of Illustrations and Tables

Preface

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

Theory

Experimental and Conceptual Innovators

Archetypes

Planning, Working, and Stopping

Innovation and Age: Old Masters and Young Geniuses

Artists, Scholars, and Art Scholars

CHAPTER 2

Measurement

Quantifying Artistic Success

Prices

Textbook Illustrations

Examples: Ten Important Modern Painters

Retrospective Exhibitions

Examples: Ten Important American Painters

Museum Collections

Museum Exhibition

Measuring Careers

CHAPTER 3

Extensions

The Spectrum of Approaches

Can Artists Change?

Anomalies

CHAPTER 4

Implications

Masters and Masterpieces

The Impressionists’ Challenge to the Salon

Masterpieces without Masters

Contrasting Careers

Conflicts

The Globalization of Modern Art

CHAPTER 5

Before Modern Art

CHAPTER 6

Beyond Painting

Sculptors

Poets

Novelists

Movie Directors

CHAPTER 7

Perspectives

Portraits of the Artist as an Experimental or Conceptual Innovator

Portraits of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator

Psychologists on the Life Cycles of Creativity

Understanding and Increasing Creativity

Seekers and Finders

Notes

Bibliography

Index