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050 00 $aBF315$b.K296 2012
060 00 $a2013 I-120
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100 1 $aKandel, Eric R.
245 14 $aThe age of insight :$bthe quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present /$cEric R. Kandel.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bRandom House,$cc2012.
300 $axviii, 636 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [531]-574) and index.
505 0 $aPart 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 --
505 0 $aPart 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 --
505 0 $aPart 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.
520 $aA 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.
650 0 $aSubconsciousness.
650 0 $aPerception.
650 0 $aSubconsciousness in art.
650 12 $aUnconscious (Psychology)$zAustria.
650 22 $aArt$zAustria$xHistory.
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century$zAustria.
650 22 $aPerception$zAustria.
650 22 $aScience$zAustria.
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