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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Part 1
The Two Cultures Meet in the New York School
Introduction
1 The Emergence of an Abstract School of Art in New York
Part 2
A Reductionist Approach to Brain Science
2 The Beginning of a Scientific Approach to the Perception of Art
The Beholder’s Share
The Inverse Optics Problem: Intrinsic Limitations of Visual Perception
3 The Biology of the Beholder’s Share: Visual Perception and Bottom-up Processing in Art
The Visual System
The Face-Processing Component of the Visual System
Other Components of the Human Nervous System
The Interaction of Vision and Touch and the Recruitment of Emotion
4 The Biology of Learning and Memory: Top-Down Processing in Art
A Reductionist Approach to Learning and Memory
Merging the Psychology and Biology of Learning and Memory
Where Is Memory Stored?
How Is Memory Stored?
The Formation of Short- and Long-Term Memory
Modifying the Functional Architecture of the Brain
Top-Down Processing and Art
Part 3
A Reductionist Approach to Art
5 Reductionism in the Emergence of Abstract Art
Turner and the Move Toward Abstraction
Monet and Impressionism
Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the First Truly Abstract Images
6 Mondrian and the Radical Reduction of the Figurative Image
7 The New York School of Painters
De Kooning and the Reduction of Figuration
Pollock and the Deconstruction of the Easel Painting
8 How the Brain Processes and Perceives Abstract Images
Sensation and Perception
Revisiting the Abstract Painting of de Kooning and Pollock
9 From Figuration to Color Abstraction
Rothko and Color Abstraction
Louis’s Approach to Abstraction and Reduction of Color
The Emotional Power of Color-Field Painting
10 Color and the Brain
Color Vision
Color and Emotion
11 A Focus on Light
Flavin and Fluorescent Light
Turrell and the Physical Presence of Light and Space
12 A Reductionist Influence on Figuration
Katz and the Return to Figuration
Warhol and Pop Art
Close and Synthesis
Part 4
The Emerging Dialogue Between Abstract Art and Science
13 Why is Reductionism Successful in Art?
Abstract Art’s New Rules for Visual Processing
The Beholder as Creative Viewer
Creativity and the Default Network: Abstract Art
Abstract Art and the Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance
14 A Return to the Two Cultures
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Index
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