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Arte e scienza possono trovare un terreno comune? In questo nuovo libro, il premio Nobel Eric Kandel sostiene che la scienza può plasmare il nostro modo di assaporare le opere d'arte e aiutarci a comprenderne il significato. Il riduzionismo, che mira a riportare i concetti scientifici o estetici complessi a componenti più semplici, è stato usato dagli artisti moderni per distillare il loro mondo soggettivo in colore, forma e luce. In particolare, ha guidato la transizione dall'arte figurativa alle prime manifestazioni dell'arte astratta, di cui si vede il riflesso nelle opere di Monet, Kandinsky e Mondrian. Kandel spiega come nel dopoguerra Pollock, de Kooning e Rothko abbiano utilizzato un approccio riduzionista per arrivare al loro espressionismo astratto e come Warhol e altri, partendo dai risultati della "scuola di New York", abbiano reimmaginato l'arte figurativa e minimale. Arricchito da esplicativi disegni del cervello e illustrato da riproduzioni a colori dei capolavori dell'arte moderna, questo libro mette in evidenza i punti di contatto fra scienza e arte e il modo in cui esse si illuminano a vicenda.
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- Pagine: 243
- Data di uscita: 19-10-2017
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In Nobel Prize-winning Columbia Professor Eric Kandel's latest work, he offers an introduction to the idea that the study and practice of Reductionism in modern (visual) art and brain science offers great benefit to both disciplines when treated as two sides of the same coin. He eloquently sums this Leggi tutto
“I construct lines and colours on a flat surface in order to express general beauty with utmost awareness. Nature(or that which I see) inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth Leggi tutto
Although parts on abstract art lack some erudite nuance (e.g., Kandel retells Clement Greenberg’s accounts on abstract expressionism rather uncritically or presents the classical - predominantly male - canon of abstract expressionism without questioning it), the parts on visual perception and brain Leggi tutto
An orthodox approach to both art history and neuroscience, and the two sections never seem to connect as well as I'd hope from a book trying to bridge the two cultures. The whole thing seems to just rest on the fact that top down processing is involved in viewing abstract art as opposed to bottom up Leggi tutto
As a self proclaimed hater of modern art and abstraction, this book did make me rethink WHY these works can be considered art. Kandel does an excellent job of dumbing down neuroscience for the casual consumer, and his connections with artists ranging from Jackson Pollock to Chuck Close make sense. T Leggi tutto
Glad I read it. A good, clear and concise synthesis of research in brain science related to visual art. Art people might be irritated by some things: the cursory treatment of art historians and critics, the absence of female artists, the triumphalist modernist narrative, and inattention to tradition Leggi tutto
The title of the book is quite misleading, as the author does not deal with art as such but with "New York school" abstract painting and its European predecessors from Turner to Kandinsky and Mondrian. None the less the content is very interesting. Kandel explains how the processes at work when we lo Leggi tutto
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