Volume 2. Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture

Introduction to the Series

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Value and Evaluation in Art and Culture

1.3 Demand, Consumption, and Investment

1.4 Innovation and Technological Change

1.5 Trade, Development, and Cultural Diversity

1.6 Broader Cultural Issues

1.7 Conclusion

References

PART I: Value and evaluation in art and culture

Chapter 2. Creative Genius in Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts

Abstract

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Achieved Eminence

2.3 Individual Attributes

2.4 Lifespan Development

2.5 Social Processes

2.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 3. Contemporary Experimental Aesthetics: Procedures and Findings

Abstract

3.1 Introduction

3.2 An Artwork as Stimulus

3.3 Processes Underlying an Aesthetic Experience with Visual Art

3.4 The Viewer’s Contribution to an Aesthetic Experience

3.5 The Art Museum as Laboratory

3.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 4. The Economic and Cultural Value of Paintings: Some Empirical Evidence

Abstract

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Hypotheses

4.3 Data and Method

4.4 Results

4.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 5. Values of Music

Abstract

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Preliminary Distinctions

5.3 Music’s Value for Listener, Performer, And Composer

5.4 Manners of Musical Value

5.5 The Centrality of Music in Human Life

5.6 The Artistic Value of Music

5.7 Music’s Extra-Artistic Value

5.8 Music’s Aesthetic Value

5.9 Music’s Symbolic Value

5.10 Music’s Self-Affirmation Value

5.11 Music’s Social Value

5.12 Music’s Idiosyncratic Value<