TY  - JOUR
AU  - Galenson, David
TI  - The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14005
PY  - 2008
Y2  - May 2008
DO  - 10.3386/w14005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14005
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14005.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Galenson
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773/702-8258
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: galenson@uchicago.edu
M1  - published as David W. Galenson. "The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century," in "Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art" Cambridge University Press (2009)

AB  - The twentieth century was a time of rapid globalization for advanced art. Artists from a larger number of countries made important contributions than in earlier periods, and they did so in a larger number of places. Many important innovations also diffused more rapidly, and more widely, than in earlier times. The dominance for much of the century of conceptual forms of art, from Cubism and Dada to Pop and Conceptual Art, was largely responsible for the greater speed with which innovations spread: conceptual techniques are communicated more readily, and are generally more versatile in their uses, than experimental methods. There is no longer a single dominant place in the art world, comparable to Paris for the first century of modern art, but it is unlikely that a large number of places will join New York and London as centers of artistic innovation in the future.
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