One reason may be that some abstract works, with their reduction of figuration, color, and light, are uncluttered. Yet even when an abstract work is cluttered, like an action painting by Jackson ...

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 ...

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 ...