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Reductionism in art and brain science : bridging the two cultures /

Can science and art find common ground? Are scientific and artistic quests mutually exclusive? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric Kandel, whose interests span the fields of science and art, explores how reductionism-the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kandel, Eric R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.