Reductionism in Art and Brain Science - Bridging the Two Cultures - Grand Format

With his remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art, Eric R. Kandel is uniquely positioned to bridge the cultural divide between the arts and sciences. In this book he 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 neuro-biological underpinnings of learning and memory to shed light on how a similarly reductionism approach has been employed by modern artists who distill their subjective world into color, form, and light.
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art, drawing out the common concerns of science and art and how they illuminate each other.