Reductionism in Art and Brain Science - Bridging the Two Cultures
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| Verlag | Columbia University Press |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 14,1 x 22,4 x 1,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0231179634 |
| EAN | 9780231179638 |
| Bestell-Nr | 23117963EA |
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism - the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components - has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. He draws on his Nobel Prize-winning work revealing the neurobiological underpinnings of learning and memory in sea slugs to shed light on the complex workings of the mental processes of higher animals.
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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