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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792250603321

Autore

Finger Stanley

Titolo

Minds behind the brain [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / / Stanley Finger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-518182-4

0-19-802468-1

1-280-70421-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 p.)

Disciplina

612.8209

Soggetti

Neurosciences - History

Brain - Research - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Voyage Across Time; 2 An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology; 3 Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of Mind; 4 Galen: The Birth of Experimentation; 5 Andreas Vesalius: The New ""Human"" Neuroanatomy; 6 René Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem; 7 Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain; 8 Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves; 9 Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind; 10 Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance; 11 David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex

12 Jean-Martin Charcot: Clinical Neurology Comes of Age13 Santiago Ramón y Cajal: From Nerve Nets to Neuron Doctrine; 14 Charles Scott Sherrington: The Integrated Nervous System; 15 Edgar D. Adrian: Coding in the Nervous System; 16 Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters; 17 Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: From Neural Growth to ""Split Brains""; 18 Pioneers and Discoveries in the Brain Sciences; Notes ; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Preface  1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time  2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology  3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the Mind  4. Galen: The Birth of Experimentation  5. Andreas



Vesalius: The New ""Human"" Neuroanatomy  6. Rene Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem  7. Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain  8. Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves  9. Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind  10. Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance  11. David Ferrier and Edward Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex  12. Je

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778912503321

Autore

Kovtun Evgueny

Titolo

Russian avant-garde [[electronic resource] /] / [Evgueny Kovtun]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Parkstone International, [2012?]

ISBN

1-283-95215-7

1-78042-793-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Art of century collection

Disciplina

709.47

Soggetti

Art, Russian - 20th century

Art, Soviet

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Russia

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Art in the First Years of the Revolution; 'Picasso, this is not the new art.'; The Spiritual Universe; The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd; The Sevodnia Artel; The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]; Wassily Kandinsky; The Struggle Against Gravity; The 'Renaissance' of Vitebsk; Schools and Movements; The Institute of Artistic Culture; The Additional Element; Elena Guro; The Signal for a Return to Nature; The End of the INKhUK; Malevich's Second Peasant Cycle; The Rebellion Against God; The National 'Tone' of Colour

Filonov and the Masters of Analytical Art The Kalevala; Artistic Groups in the 1920's; Sculpture, Porcelain and Textile Manufacture; The Avant-Garde Stopped in its Tracks; MAJOR ARTISTS; The Association of Artists



of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), (renamed in 1928 The Association of Artists of the Revolution - AKhRR), 1922-1932, Moscow - Leningrad; Circle of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad; The Masters of Analytical Art (MAI), 1925-1932, Leningrad; The Makovets, 1921-1925, Moscow; The World of Art, 1898-1904, 1910-1924, St Petersburg - Moscow; Monolith, 1918-1922, Moscow

The New Society of Painters (NOZh), 1921-1914, Moscow Oktiabr (including the group Molodoi Oktiabr), 1930-1932, Moscow - Leningrad; Painters of Moscow, 1924-1926, Moscow; The Four Arts Society of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad - Moscow; The Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh), 1927-1932, Moscow; The Union of Youth, 1910-1914, 1917-1919, St Petersburg - Petrograd; Nathan Altman (Vinnitsa, 1889 - Leningrad, 1970); Yuri Annenkov (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, 1889 - Paris, 1974); Sergei Bulakovski (Odessa, 1880 - Kratovo, 1937); Leon Bakst (Grodno, 1866 - Paris, 1924)

David Burliuk (Hamlet of Semirotovchtchina (now region of Kharkov), 1882 - Long Island, New York, 1967)Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985); Alexander Shevchenko (Kharkov, 1883 - Moscow, 1948); Yuri Schukin (Voronej, 1904 - Moscow, 1935); Maria Ender (St Petersburg, 1897 - Leningrad, 1942); Vera Ermolaeva (Petrovsk, 1893 - district of Karaganda, victim of Stalinist repression, 1938); Evguenija Evenbach (Krementchug, 1889 - Leningrad, 1981); Alexandra Exter (Belostok, 1882 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1949); Robert Rafailovich Falk (Moscow, 1886 - Moscow, 1958)

Pavel Filonov (Moscow, 1883 - Leningrad, 1941)Natalia Goncharova (Negayevo, 1881 - Paris, 1962); Elena Guro (St Petersburg, 1877 - Uusikirkko, 1913); Lev Yudin (Vitebsk, 1903 - Leningrad, died on the front near Leningrad, 1941); Pyotr Kontchalovsky (Slaviansk, 1876 - Moscow, 1956); Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944); Valentin Kurdov (Mikhailovskoie, 1905 - Leningrad, 1989); Mikhail Larionov (Tiraspol, 1881 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1964); Vladimir Lebedev (St Petersburg, 1891 - Leningrad, 1967); Aristarkh Lentulov (Vorona, 1882 - Moscow, 1943)

Lazar Lissitzky, known as El-Lissitzky (Potchinok, 1890 - Moscow, 1941)

Sommario/riassunto

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the twentieth century in pre-revolutionary Russia. The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic constraints of the past. It was these Avant-Garde artists who, through their immense creativity, gave birth to abstract art, thereby elevating Russian culture to a modern level.Such painters as Kandinsky, Malevich, Goncharova, Larionov, and Tatlin