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Reductionism in art and brain science : bridging the two cultures / Eric R. Kandel

Author(s): Kandel, Eric R.

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Main Title

Reductionism in art and brain science : bridging the two cultures

Author(s)

Kandel, Eric R.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, 2016

Collation

226 pages : illustrations
24 cm

ISBN

9780231179621

Dewey Class

700.19

Contents

The emergence of an abstract school of art in New York -- The beginning of a scientific approach to the perception of art -- The biology of the beholder's share: visual perception and bottom-up processing in art -- The biology of learning and memory: top-down processing in art -- Reductionism in the emergence of abstract art -- Mondrian and the radical reduction of figurative image -- From figuration to color abstraction -- Color and the brain -- A focus on light -- A reductionist influence on figuration -- Why is reductionism successful in art -- A return to the two cultures.

Language

English

Subject

Art
Reductionism.
Visual perception.
Neurosciences and the arts.

BRN

10837

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