Kandel, Eric R. <br/><br/>
Reductionism in art and brain science :  Bridging the two cultures / 
 First paperback Edition. 
Eric R. Kandel. 
 - x, 226 pages :  illustrations (some color) ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231179638 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015048058 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reductionism<br/>Art--Psychology<br/>Visual perception<br/>Neurosciences and the arts
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>700.19  / ERI