Yet even when an abstract work is cluttered, like an action painting by Jackson Pollock, it generally does not rely on an external framework of knowledge. Each work is highly ambiguous, as great ...

Eric Kandel, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, delves into these questions in books like The Age of Insight and Reductionism in Art and Brain Science. His work explores the deep connections ...

In “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures,” Eric Kandel takes a different approach. Kandel is a professor at Columbia University, and received the Nobel Prize for ...

And look for art everywhere, observing the everyday with an art mindset to counteract the reductionist tendencies of our brains.

Recently, neuroscientists and an art historian asked ten subjects to ... Others, neuroscientists included, worry that neuroscience offers a reductionist perspective. Vilayanur Ramachandran ...

His constant search for essentiality is reflected in the decorations for his new illy Art Collection, which references reductionist painting, with its fluid brushstrokes and lines, where every ...