David Galenson
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David W. Galenson (born 1951) is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the American University of Paris.
He studied at Harvard University, completing his PhD in 1979.
He has become famous through his study of artistic innovation, claiming artists of a particular type make their greatest achievements early in life (Conceptualists), while late bloomers (Experimentalists) approach their work differently. He has analyzed data from auction houses comparing the value of an artist's works to the age at which they were produced. He has also investigated conceptual and experimental innovators among poets, novelists, sculptors, film makers and economists.
He has written two books on these subjects:
- Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art, published by Harvard University Press, in 2001.
- Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, published by Princeton University Press, in 2006.
In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fine arts research.
[edit] External links
- David Galenson's homepage
- Article about him in Wired
- Faculty page at University of Chicago's Department of Economics
- University of Chicago Experts Guide
- Arts of Innovation, which applies Galenson's approach to innovation in business, science, invention and daily life.
