The explosion of art and science in Vienna
Review of The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
This book brings together – and updates – two of my oldest fascinations: the birth of depth psychology and the explosion of expressionist art in fin de siècle Vienna. In this brilliant synthesis, Kandel includes an introduction to the recent advances of cognitive neuroscience as related to both the perception of modern art and what it says about our bra…
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