Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kandel, Eric R.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

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Description

x, 226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Art > Psychology
• Reductionism
• Neurosciences and the arts
• Visual Perception
• Visual perception
• Art > psychology
• Neurosciences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. The emergence of a reductionist school of abstract art in New York -- The Beginning of a Scientific Approach to 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 -- A Reductionist Approach to Art. Reductionism in the Emergence of Abstract Art -- Mondrian and the Radical Reduction of the Figurative Image -- The New York School of Painters -- How the Brain Processes and Perceives Abstract Images -- From Figuration to Color Abstraction -- Color and the Brain -- A Focus on Light -- A Reductionist Influence on Figuration -- The Emerging Dialogue Between Abstract Art and Science. Why Is Reductionism Successful in Art? -- A Return to the Two Cultures.

ISBN

• 9780231179621
• 0231179626
• 9780231542081 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015048058

OCLC

• ocn932302605
• 932302605
• SCSB-5861657

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries