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Summary
David Galenson's work on the history of art is a unique fusion of econometrics and cultural analysis that is unprecedented in the literature on creativity in any discipline, whether economics, psychology, literary studies or art history.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xii |
| The life cycles of modern painters: evidence from art historians | p. 1 |
| Quantifying artistic success: ranking French painters - and paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism | p. 3 |
| Measuring masters and masterpieces: French rankings of French painters and paintings from Realism to Surrealism | p. 23 |
| Was Jackson Pollock the greatest modern American painter? A quantitative investigation | p. 46 |
| The New York School vs. the School of Paris: who really made the most important art after World War II? | p. 64 |
| The life cycles of modern painters: evidence from auction markets | p. 85 |
| The market evaluation of fine art: the case of modern painting | p. 87 |
| The life cycles of modern artists | p. 95 |
| Markets and artists' behavior | p. 105 |
| Masterpieces and markets: why the most famous modern paintings are not by American artists | p. 107 |
| The reappearing masterpiece: ranking American artists and art works of the late twentieth century | p. 126 |
| Life cycles of artistic creativity: beyond painting | p. 143 |
| Literary life cycles: measuring the careers of modern American poets | p. 145 |
| A portrait of the artist as a young or old innovator: measuring the careers of modern novelists | p. 171 |
| A portrait of the artist as a very young or very old innovator: creativity at the extremes of the life cycle | p. 206 |
| Notes | p. 243 |
| References | p. 267 |
| Index | p. 281 |
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