The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present cover artwork
Neuroscience Published 2012 4/5

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

by Eric R. Kandel

About the book

A wide-ranging history connecting Vienna 1900, modern art, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and the scientific study of perception and emotion.

Published
2012
Art and neuroscience Vienna 1900 Perception

My note

I enjoyed this more than I expected. A lot happened in the development of art, modern medicine, and science in Vienna around 1900, from painters, Freud, and Jung to the scientific ideas that followed.