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Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts

Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts abstract The role of experts is dramatically increasing in our societies, where sorting information about quality is becoming more and more difficult. This paper looks at expertise in the arts (movies, novels and musical interpretation) and shows that expert opinion given shortly after the work has been produced (Oscars, prizes, rankings in musical competitions) may influence success, though it does not always recognize talent and does often not survive the “test of time,” considered by many art philosophers, since Hume, as one of the possible measures of fundamental aesthetic quality. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Economic Perspectives American Economic Association

Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts

Journal of Economic Perspectives , Volume 17 (2) – Jun 1, 2003

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Publisher
American Economic Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 by the American Economic Association
Subject
Symposia
ISSN
0895-3309
DOI
10.1257/089533003765888458
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Abstract

abstract The role of experts is dramatically increasing in our societies, where sorting information about quality is becoming more and more difficult. This paper looks at expertise in the arts (movies, novels and musical interpretation) and shows that expert opinion given shortly after the work has been produced (Oscars, prizes, rankings in musical competitions) may influence success, though it does not always recognize talent and does often not survive the “test of time,” considered by many art philosophers, since Hume, as one of the possible measures of fundamental aesthetic quality.

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Journal of Economic PerspectivesAmerican Economic Association

Published: Jun 1, 2003

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