TY - BOOK AU - Kandel,Eric R. TI - Reductionism in art and brain science: Bridging the two cultures SN - 9780231179638 U1 - 700.19 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Reductionism KW - Art KW - Psychology KW - Visual perception KW - Neurosciences and the arts N1 - 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 ER -