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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/724650907 Title: The age of insight : the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present Author: Eric R Kandel Publisher: New York : Random House, ©2012. ISBN/ISSN: 9781400068715 1400068711 9781588369307 1588369307 OCLC:724650907

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The age of insight : the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present

Author:	Eric R Kandel
Publisher:	New York : Random House, ©2012.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Document Computer File : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	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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Subjects	Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939. Klimt, Gustav, -- 1862-1918. Kokoschka, Oskar, -- 1886-1980. View all subjects
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Named Person:	Sigmund Freud; Gustav Klimt; Oskar Kokoschka; Egon Schiele; Arthur Schnitzler
Material Type:	Document
Document Type:	Book, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Eric R Kandel Find more information about:
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.

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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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