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| Named Person: | Sigmund Freud; Gustav Klimt; Oskar Kokoschka; Egon Schiele; Arthur Schnitzler |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric R Kandel |
| ISBN: | 9781400068715 1400068711 9781588369307 1588369307 |
| OCLC Number: | 724650907 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Description: | xviii, 636 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Part 1. A psychoanalytic psychology and art of unconscious emotion. An inward turn : Vienna 1900 -- Exploring the truths hidden beneath the surface : origins of a scientific medicine -- Viennese artists, writers, and scientists meet in the Zuckerkandl Salon -- Exploring the brain beneath the skull : origins of a scientific psychiatry -- Exploring mind together with the brain : the development of a brain-based psychology -- Exploring mind apart from the brain : origins of a dynamic psychology -- Searching for inner meaning in literature -- The depiction of modern women's sexuality in art -- The depiction of the psyche in art -- The fusion of eroticism, aggression, and anxiety in art -- Part 2. A cognitive psychology of visual perception and emotional response to art. Discovering the beholder's share -- Observation is also invention : the brain as a creativity machine -- The emergence of twentieth-century painting -- Part 3. Biology of the beholder's visual response to art. The brain's processing of visual images -- Deconstruction of the visual image : the building blocks of form perception -- Reconstruction of the world we see : vision is information processing -- High-level vision and the brain's perception of face, hands, and body -- Top-down processing of information : using memory to find meaning -- The deconstruction of emotion : the search for emotional primitives -- The artistic depiction of emotion through the face, hands, body, and color -- Unconscious emotions, conscious feelings, and their bodily expression -- Part 4. Biology of the beholder's emotional response to art. Top-down control of cognitive emotional information -- The biological response to beauty and ugliness in art -- The beholder's share : entering the private theater of another's mind -- The biology of the beholder's share : modeling other people's minds -- How the brain regulates emotion and empathy -- Part 5. An evolving dialogue between visual art and science. Artistic universals and the Austrian expressionists -- The creative brain -- The cognitive unconscious and the creative brain -- Brain circuits for creativity -- Talent, creativity, and brain development -- Knowing ourselves : the new dialogue between art and science. |
| Responsibility: | Eric R. Kandel. |
Abstract:
A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, "The Age of Insight" takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to art.
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