LEADER 05273nam 2200697 450 001 9910466048703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54208-9 024 7 $a10.7312/kand17962 035 $a(CKB)3710000000776208 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16417645 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14853171 035 $a(PQKB)10986715 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16244245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14853194 035 $a(PQKB)20479865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4588064 035 $a(DE-B1597)478170 035 $a(OCoLC)932303011 035 $a(OCoLC)984652113 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542081 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4588064 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11242234 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL986041 035 $a(OCoLC)956138052 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000776208 100 $a20160824h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReductionism in art and brain science $ebridging the two cultures /$fEric R. Kandel 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (237 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-231-17962-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPart 1. The Two Cultures Meet in the New York School -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. The Emergence of an Abstract School of Art in New York -- $tPart 2. A Reductionist Approach to Brain Science -- $tChapter 2. The Beginning of a Scientific Approach to the Perception of Art -- $tChapter 3. The Biology of the Beholder?s Share -- $tChapter 4. The Biology of Learning and Memory -- $tPart 3. A Reductionist Approach to Art -- $tChapter 5. Reductionism in the Emergence of Abstract Art -- $tChapter 6. Mondrian and the Radical Reduction of the Figurative Image -- $tChapter 7. The New York School of Painters -- $tChapter 8. How the Brain Processes and Perceives Abstract Images -- $tChapter 9. From Figuration to Color Abstraction -- $tChapter 10. Color and the Brain -- $tChapter 11. A Focus On Light -- $tChapter 12. A Reductionist Influence On Figuration -- $tPart 4. The Emerging Dialogue Between Abstract Art and Science -- $tChapter 13. Why is Reductionism Successful in Art? -- $tChapter 14. A Return to the Two Cultures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aAre 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. In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Kandel shows how this radically reductionist approach, applied to the most complex puzzle of our time?the brain?has been employed by modern artists who distill their subjective world into color, form, and light. Kandel demonstrates through bottom-up sensory and top-down cognitive functions how science can explore the complexities of human perception and help us to perceive, appreciate, and understand great works of art. At the heart of the book is an elegant elucidation of the contribution of reductionism to the evolution of modern art and its role in a monumental shift in artistic perspective. Reductionism steered the transition from figurative art to the first explorations of abstract art reflected in the works of Turner, Monet, Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Mondrian. Kandel explains how, in the postwar era, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Louis, Turrell, and Flavin used a reductionist approach to arrive at their abstract expressionism and how Katz, Warhol, Close, and Sandback built upon the advances of the New York School to reimagine figurative and minimal art. Featuring captivating drawings of the brain alongside full-color reproductions of modern art masterpieces, this book draws out the common concerns of science and art and how they illuminate each other. 606 $aArt$xPsychology 606 $aReductionism 606 $aVisual perception 606 $aNeurosciences and the arts 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArt$xPsychology. 615 0$aReductionism. 615 0$aVisual perception. 615 0$aNeurosciences and the arts. 676 $a700.1/9 700 $aKandel$b Eric R.$067166 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466048703321 996 $aReductionism in art and brain science$92487501 997 $aUNINA