Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts
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T he role of gatekeepers, gurus and experts is dramatically increasing in our societies, where sorting information about quality can become a very cumbersome task. A change in the rating of a corporate bond or of a country’s risk by Moody or Standard & Poor’s can generate large capital movements. In the field of cultural economics, prominent examples of expert judgment include the award of an Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the opinion by an art expert to attribute a painting to Rembrandt or the rating of a wine by Robert Parker. One approach to the description and rating of the aesthetic nature of a work is to decompose the overall judgment into characteristics, explain how to rate each of them and how to aggregate the rates. The French art critic Roger de Piles (1635–1709) was probably among the first to try to define the characteristics of beauty. In his Cours de Peinture par Principes (1708), he decomposes painting into four fundamental characteristics—composition, drawing, color, expression—and rates each of these on a scale from 0 to 20 for 56 painters from his and previous times. Rembrandt, for example, is very low on drawing and obtains 15, 6, 17 and 12 on the characteristics just mentioned, while Michelangelo is very high on drawing, with scores of 8, 17, 4 and 8, respectively. De Piles thus goes almost the whole way by defining and rating characteristics, but stops without discussing how to aggregate the ratings (he does not even dare to add them). Current art historians and art philosophers usually either ignore such views or
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