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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 (2012)

by Eric Kandel(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1400068711 (ISBN13: 9781400068715)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Random House

review 1: A century after the conversation between neuroscience, art an psychology began a few questions have been already answered and this book presents them in a fascinating way.The most interesting thing about this book though, is the possibility of contemplating the vastness of the mysteries of the brain and to take a sneak peek at the new questions posed by this conversation that scientists and thinkers are challenged to tackle in the years to come.
review 2: Because I have listened to Eric Kandel several times when he discusses what neuroscience knows about human brain behavior when a specific area of the brain has been damaged, I anticipated this book would follow that scientific endeavor. However, Kandel (a recipient of the 2000 Nobel in physiology) centers th... moreis book on understanding the unconscious as well as the conscious in art and begins with art in Vienna in the early 20th Century. He addresses what those artists were portraying as they shifted from 3 dimensional to 2 dimensional art as they interacted with psychiatrists in the small community of Vienna during that period; but he is also most insightful in the research done on the consciousness of the beholder. The book only lagged when he gave a total scientific description of which section of the brain energizes for each act of perception, awareness, empathy, creativity, etc. Unless one is educated in the activity of the brain, one probably doesn't actively question what section of the brain is activated during each activity of the day. The rest of the book is spellbinding as well as awesome. less

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