This item old masters and young geniuses the two life cycles of artistic creativity by david w galenson paperback 2668 only 15 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom. There are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation and each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over the life cycle experimental innovators work by trial and error and arrive at their major contributions gradually late in life conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs usually at an early age both types of . By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors poets novelists and movie directorsold masters and young geniusesoffers 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 . Old masters and young geniuses the two life cycles of artistic creativity old masters and young geniuses the two life cycles of artistic creativity by galenson david w publication date 2006 topics creation literary artistic etc ability influence of age on arts modern 19th century arts modern 20th century publisher. Old masters and young geniuses the two life cycles of artistic creativity david w galenson theres something important to be learned about the way our minds work by entertaining the notion that there are two very different styles of creativity the picasso and the old masters and young geniuses is a strikingly novel interpretation of