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dabent, you should post the Wired piece separately -- it's worth reading just for the account of the metrics Galenson used to decide on the "value" of art produ
by dctoedt 16y ago
dabent, you should post the Wired piece separately -- it's worth reading just for the account of the metrics Galenson used to decide on the "value" of art produced by artists, poets, etc. at different points in their lives (it was not just the prices of the different pieces, but their citations in textbooks, a la Google's PageRank algorithm).
- dabent 16y agoI would, but it was submitted less than a month ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678415 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678415 It really is a good article and worth the read.
- Hipponax 16y agoFitzgerald died at 44, Mozart at 35 so neither lived long enough to get into the old group.