04299nam 2200829 a 450 991096104300332120230914152706.09786613133397978128313339512831333939781400837397140083739110.1515/9781400837397(CKB)2670000000095259(EBL)713603(OCoLC)730151763(SSID)ssj0000524562(PQKBManifestationID)11913797(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524562(PQKBWorkID)10562311(PQKB)10797732(OCoLC)733057995(MdBmJHUP)muse36733(DE-B1597)447784(OCoLC)1054865497(OCoLC)979593674(DE-B1597)9781400837397(Au-PeEL)EBL713603(CaPaEBR)ebr10477103(CaONFJC)MIL313339(PPN)195537408(MiAaPQ)EBC713603(PPN)187956618(Perlego)735282(FR-PaCSA)88833460(FRCYB88833460)88833460(EXLCZ)99267000000009525920050330d2006 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOld masters and young geniuses the two life cycles of artistic creativity /David W. GalensonCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20061 online resource (251 pages)"Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2008."9780691121093 0691121095 9780691133805 0691133808 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations and Tables --Preface --Introduction --Chapter 1. Theory --Chapter 2. Measurement --Chapter 3. Extensions --Chapter 4. Implications --Chapter 5. Before Modern Art --Chapter 6. Beyond Painting --Chapter 7. Perspectives --Notes --Bibliography --IndexWhen in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime. Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past. Experimental innovators seek, and conceptual innovators find. By illuminating the differences between them, this pioneering book provides vivid new insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Ability, Influence of age onArts, Modern19th centuryArts, Modern20th centuryCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Ability, Influence of age on.Arts, ModernArts, Modern700/.1/9Galenson David W133463MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961043003321Old masters and young geniuses4337178UNINA