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