Jason Mendelson recalls this quote: "I love backing first time CEOs because they don’t know what they cant do and never limit themselves."Reminds me of a conversation I had with Auren Hoffman a couple weeks ago. We theorized the best time to start a company was around age 27. On...
In the Internet age, we are conditioned to believe that the only innovative people who make important contributions to our culture and economy are whiz kids fresh from prestigious art schools and institutes of technology, who leap to sudden, dramatic discoveries and quickly become rich and famous. In...
David W. Galenson http://papers.nber.org/papers/wl2058 Bypassing the usual debate of art historians and philosophers, this study rigorously determines the eight most important works of the twentieth century using a statistical methodology. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of...
Abstract. Paris was the unrivaled capital of modern art in the nineteenth century, but during the early twentieth century major innovations began to be made elsewhere in Europe. The author examined the careers of the artists who led such movements as Italian Futurism, German Expressionism, Holland's...
Abstract. Some important novelists have written a great novel early in their careers and have produced lesser works thereafter, whereas others have improved their work gradually over long periods and have made their major contributions late in their lives. Which of these patterns a novelist follows...
Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 14 AScribe Newswire -- Despite Robert Frost's musing about the possibility of veering off toward "the road not taken," he and other artists are, by their inclinations, pretty much destined to follow one of two major pathways...
Abstract. A survey of the illustrations in textbooks of modern art produces the startling finding that art scholars consider Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to be the most important individual work made by an American artist during the past 150 years. More generally, quantifying the evidence of...
Abstract. How can minor artists produce major works of art? The author considers 13 modern visual artists, each of whom produced a single masterpiece that dominates the artist's career. The artists include painters, sculptors, and architects, and their masterpieces include works as prominent as the painting...
Abstract. The author examines the careers of 11 leading twentieth-century American poets. Using the frequency with which poems are reprinted in anthologies as a measure of their importance, quantitative analysis reveals that among these poets there were two distinctly different life cycles: one group produced their...
Abstract. The author applies David Galenson's work on the life cycles of modern artists to the study of the paintings of old masters, from about the early fifteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. Both the potential use of technical examination of paintings and the role of ...
Abstract. In earlier research, the author has contrasted the methods and life cycles of conceptual innovators, who express specific ideas and produce their major discoveries early in their careers, with those of experimental artists, who present visual perceptions and arrive at their major contributions late in...
Historical Methods has from its origins been concerned with bringing new methods to the study of history. Emerging simultaneously with the New Social History, it has always focused on the technical or conceptual aspects of that subdiscipline, but it has never ignored two other large areas...
Agriculture and natural resources Energy Policies of IEA Countries: The United States 2002 Review. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Energy Agency, 2002, 148 pp., $75/paperback. Economic and social statistics Annuaire Statistique de la France: edition 2003. Paris, Insee (Institut...
At what stage of their lives are great innovators most creative? There are two very different answers to this question. Some great innovators make their most important discoveries suddenly, very early in their careers. In contrast, others arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in their lives,...
David W. Galenson is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies and a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He received both his undergraduate and his graduate degrees in economics from Harvard University. Galenson joined the University of Chicago's economics faculty in 1978...
At what stage of their lives are great innovators most creative? There are two very different answers to this question. Some great innovators make their most important discoveries suddenly, very early in their careers. In contrast, others arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in their lives, after...
Abstract. American historians of modern art routinely assume that after World War II New York replaced Paris as the center of the western art world. An analysis of the illustrations in French textbooks shows that French art scholars disagree: they rate Jean Dubuffet as the most ...
Abstract. A survey of the illustrations in textbooks of modern art demonstrates that scholars do consider Jackson Pollock the most important modern American painter, but not by a wide margin over Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, the leading artists of the following generation. The distribution of...
Abstract. A survey of the illustrations in art history textbooks reveals that the most important modern American painters, including Pollock, Johns, and Warhol, failed to produce individual paintings as famous as the masterpieces of a number of major French artists, such as Picasso, Manet, and Seurat....
Abstract. For 35 leading painters who lived in France during the first century of modern art, this article uses textbook illustrations as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual paintings. The rankings pose an interesting puzzle: Why do some of the greatest...
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