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3 - Patterns of success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2009

Liah Greenfeld
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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The patterns of success of the Israeli artists were analyzed along two dimensions. The first dimension was that of the profiles of success, namely the characteristics of a successful artist in each of the different stylistic frameworks, what such success consists of and the nature of the rewards associated with it. The second was the dimension of career routes, the way in which the success is achieved and the factors that affect it.

The profiles of success were constructed by means of the following variables:

  1. Exhibitions in art galleries. The galleries were classified according to prestige – from type 1, most prestigious, to type 4, the least – established on the basis of the following characteristics: number of one-man shows held there per decade, location of the gallery, housing group exhibitions considered important, organization of exhibitions in other places (especially abroad) by the gallery, publication of reproductions and catalogues, references to the gallery in press (in the case of galleries specializing in contemporary art in the last two decades), and prices of paintings (in the case of galleries exhibiting figurative art). (See appendices A/a and A/c.)

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Different Worlds
A Sociological Study of Taste, Choice and Success in Art
, pp. 52 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1989

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  • Patterns of success
  • Liah Greenfeld, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Different Worlds
  • Online publication: 16 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571039.004
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  • Patterns of success
  • Liah Greenfeld, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Different Worlds
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  • Patterns of success
  • Liah Greenfeld, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Different Worlds
  • Online publication: 16 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571039.004
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