Old Masters And Young Geniuses

"Beautifully written, well argued, and an exciting read, "Old Masters and Young Geniuses" is a strikingly novel interpretation of the creative process by a leading scholar in the economics of the arts. It realizes the exceedingly rare accomplishment of providing a fresh way of looking at the careers of the greatest artists of Western civilization."--William N. Goetzmann, documentary filmmaker, coauthor of "The West of the Imagination," Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management<P>"A very well written and intellectually stimulating piece of scholarship that deserves to be widely read and debated."--Dean Keith Simonton, author of "Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist," Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis<P>"This extremely lucid, logical book is very much a voyage of discovery, exploring different ways of extending the author's theory of the two polar types of creative behavior to all forms of artistic and intellectual activity. As with all truly original work, it will be controversial."--Robert Jensen, author of "Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe," Associate Professor of Art History, University of Kentucky