Reaching high levels of artistic creation in a society requires institutions that facilitate the sorting of the most talented individuals of each generation and the development of their skills across artistic careers. The impact of long copyrights is not straightforward in this respect. This paper takes a professional career approach to analyzing how copyright regulation affects artistic creati...

We document the existence of pricing styles in the concert industry. Artists differ in the extent to which they rely on secondand third-degree price discrimination and in how likely they are to sell out concerts. Most strikingly, artists who use multiple seating categories are more likely to vary prices across markets and less likely to sell out concerts. These patterns are difficult to explain...

This article investigates the relation between mind wandering and the spacing effect in inductive learning. Participants studied works of art by different artists grouped in blocks, where works by a particular artist were either presented all together successively (the massed condition), or interleaved with the works of other artists (the spaced condition). The works of 24 artists were shown, w...

A review of Paris A. Spies-Gans, Revolution on Canvas: The Rise Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 by Gabrielle Stecher

this paper is an attempt to explain the form and components of iranian female painters artworks in the 70s and80s hijri. it seeks to assess women’s paintings of two decades ago in comparison with current iranian artworks. undoubtedly, the growth in the number of those who produce artworks motivates the researcher to study women’s produced paintings to identify iran’s current art field. to achie...

Most humans seem to demonstrate astonishingly high levels of skill in face processing if one considers the sophisticated level of fine-tuned discrimination that face recognition requires. However, numerous studies now indicate that the ability to process faces is not as fundamental as once thought and that performance can range from despairingly poor to extraordinarily high across people. Here ...

This paper deals with the open source method practiced within the new media art context. I present a case study on an international festival, PixelACHE 2005, which was organized by and for new media artists and served as a platform for demonstrations of new media projects and as a meeting place for experimental new media artists. In this article I discuss how new media artists adapted the open ...

For many centuries artists have considered and depicted illumination in art, from the effect of sunlight on objects at different times of the day, of shadows and highlights as cast by the moon, through indirect light as that through an open window or the artificial light of the candle or firelight. The presentation will consider artists who were fascinated by the phenomena of natural and artifi...

In the emerging world of networked and distributed digital libraries, the Web services framework will be a key to facilitating simple inter-application communication between them. Yet, despite the popularity of Web services in the business sector and their seemingly obvious applicability to the digital library domain, and to MIR in particular, the adoption of these new protocols has not been wi...

The advent of photography and computer graphics has not replaced artists. Imagery generated by artists provides information about objects that may not be readily apparent in photographs or real life. The same goal should apply to computer-generated images. This is the driving force behind non-photorealistic rendering. The term non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is applied to imagery that looks ...