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This book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
1. The Productive Interaction of Christians and Jews That Led to the Creation of Modernism in Vienna 1900
2. Empathy and the Uncertainties of Being in the Paintings of Chaim Soutine: A Beholder’s Perspective
3. Competing Influences That Gave Rise to the Modern Representation of Women
4. Portraiture and the Beholder’s Share: A Brain Science Perspective
5. The Cubist Challenge to the Beholder’s Share
6. Comparison of Sculpture and Painting
7. The Beholder’s Response to Abstract and Figurative Art
Notes
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Eric R. Kandel is University Professor Emeritus and professor emeritus of physiology and cellular biophysics, psychiatry, biochemistry, molecular biophysics, and neuroscience at Columbia University. He is founding codirector of Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, founding director of Columbia’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Sagol Professor Emeritus of Brain Science at the Zuckerman Institute. He was also a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1984 to 2022. In 2000, Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory. He has been awarded twenty-four honorary degrees. Kandel is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (2006), The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present (2012), Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (Columbia, 2016), The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (2018), and There Is Life After the Nobel Prize (Columbia, 2022). He is also a coauthor of Principles of Neural Science (2021), the standard textbook in the field of neuroscience.
Zusammenfassung
This book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science.
