Eric R. Kandel

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

 

This work of nonfiction marries neuroscience and art. Kandel, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, outlines the origins of psychology and brain science in early twentieth-century Vienna and explains how Viennese artists of the time depicted this new turn toward interiority. He also discusses how and why visual art works on our minds.