Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University Medical Center)

Broschiertes Buch

Reductionism in Art and Brain Science

Bridging the Two Cultures

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Eric R. Kandel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780231179638
• ISBN-10: 0231179634
• Artikelnr.: 50208800

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