Kandel, Eric R.
Reductionism in art and brain science : Bridging the two cultures / First paperback Edition. Eric R. Kandel. - x, 226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780231179638
2015048058
Reductionism
Art--Psychology
Visual perception
Neurosciences and the arts
700.19 / ERI
Reductionism in art and brain science : Bridging the two cultures / First paperback Edition. Eric R. Kandel. - x, 226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780231179638
2015048058
Reductionism
Art--Psychology
Visual perception
Neurosciences and the arts
700.19 / ERI