Fickle fashion versus immortal fame
Transhistorical assessments of creative products in the opera house
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6206462 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean K Simonton (0000-0002-7709-7977, California Department of Education, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 198-210 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.75.1.198 |
| OpenAlex | W4230954608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 26 |
Although the output of creative products provides a valid measure of individual differences in creativity, this criterion assumes that judgments of a product's creativity have long-term stability. This assumption was tested with a sample of 496 operas by 55 composers whose work spanned 332 years (1607-1938). In addition to examining the functional relation between initial reception and current acclaim, the investigation determined whether the interperiod consensus exhibited transhistorical stability, exponential decay, gradual attrition, or fashion cycles. Reception by contemporaries was assessed by 2 measures, whereas current status was gauged by 7 alternative assessments. Current aesthetic success was consistently found to vary as a positive monotonic function of initial reception, but the relationship changed over time in a cyclical manner. The results have important implications for the study of creativity in both historical and modern populations
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Opera · Opera house · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |