Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University Medical Center)

Reductionism in Art and Brain Science

Bridging the Two Cultures

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionismâ distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller componentsâ has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780231179638
• ISBN-10: 0231179634
• Artikelnr.: 50208800

Autorenporträt

Eric R. Kandel

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Two Cultures Meet in the New York School
Introduction
1. The Emergence of an Abstract School of Art in New York
Part II: A Reductionist Approach to Brain Science
2. The Beginning of a Scientific Approach to the Perception of Art
3. The Biology of the Beholder's Share: Visual Perception and Bottom-Up
Processing in Art
4. The Biology of Learning and Memory: Top-Down Processing in Art
Part III: A Reductionist Approach to Art
5. Reductionism in the Emergence of Abstract Art
6. Mondrian and the Radical Reduction of the Figurative Image
7. The New York School of Painters
8. How the Brain Processes and Perceives Abstract Images
9. From Figuration to Color Abstraction
10. Color and the Brain
11. A Focus on Light
12. A Reductionist Influence on Figuration
Part IV: The Emerging Dialogue Between Abstract Art and Science
13. Why Is Reductionism Successful in Art?
14. A Return to the Two Cultures
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Index

Rezensionen

Kandel's book, with one foot in the humanities and one foot in the sciences, stands comfortably in both. Writing in deceptively simple prose, not unlike the art he writes about, Kandel lucidly states the biological case for how abstract art challenges us to look so that we can see. Jim Coddington, chief conservator, Museum of Modern Art