{"product_id":"essays-on-art-and-science-hardcover","title":"Essays on Art and Science - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric R. Kandel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science--in psychology and biology. Eric R. Kandel traces the origins of this understanding to early twentieth-century Vienna, which gave rise to the concept of the \"beholder's share,\" the realization that art is incomplete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer--that is, without our responses to it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut what causes our response? Our brain is a creativity machine that brings to bear on any image--including a painting--certain innate, universal processes related to sensory perception as well as higher-order processes related to our personal experiences, memories, and emotions. Understanding how these unconscious processes in the brain interact to create the beholder's share is one of the great challenges currently confronting brain science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays on art and science in this book vary widely in subject matter, including the angst-ridden portraits of Soutine, conflicting views of women's sexuality, Cubism's challenge to our innate visual processes, and why we react differently to abstract versus figurative art. But each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science. Woven throughout are the many notable scientists, art historians, artists, and others, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who contributed to our understanding of how we experience art.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric 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\u003ci\u003e In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eReductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eThere Is Life After the Nobel Prize\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2022). He is also a coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Neural Science\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), the standard textbook in the field of neuroscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763825967392,"sku":"9780231212564","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/605733abf0b055cb2ca23a5126fd563b.webp?v=1780239867","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/essays-on-art-and-science-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}