Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts

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ID4029324
AutoresVictor Ginsburgh (0000-0001-6078-3957, Professor of Economics and Resident Fellow, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), both at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Faculty Member of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium., autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen17
Número2
Páginas99-111
Fecha de publicación2003-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965
EditorialAmerican Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1257/089533003765888458
OpenAlexW2043235716
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas5

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

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Musical · Sociology · Sorting · The arts · Visual arts · Art History and Market Analysis · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Philosophy · Psychology