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Art and The Brain 艺术与大脑

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER ERIC R. KANDEL DISCUSSES ART AND THE BRAIN

诺贝尔奖获得主 Eric R. Kandel 关于艺术与大脑的讲演

Eric R. Kandel  will discuss and sign copies of his latest book, Reductionism in Art and Brain Science,  in a free, public lecture. In the book, Dr. Kandel demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.

Dr. Kandel draws on his Nobel Prize-winning work revealing the neurobiological underpinnings of learning and memory in sea slugs to shed light on the complex workings of the mental processes of higher animals. He demonstrates through bottom-up sensory and top-down cognitive functions how science can explore the complexities of human perception and help us to perceive, appreciate, and understand great works of art. Kandel explains how, in the postwar era, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Louis, Turrell, and Flavin used a reductionist approach to arrive at their abstract expressionism and how Katz, Warhol, Close, and Sandback built upon the advances of the New York School to reimagine figurative and minimal art.

Eric R. Kandel  is University Professor and Kavli Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is director of the   Kavli Institute for Brain Science  and co-director of the   Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute  at Columbia. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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ART AND THE BRAIN

Eric R. Kandel

诺贝尔奖获得主

艺术与大脑讲演时间

DATE AND TIME

Thu, January 19, 2017

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST

LOCATION

The Great Hall at Cooper Union

7 East 7th Street

New York, NY 10003

by The Cooper Union Public Programs

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