La era del inconsciente

The Age of the Unconscious, the work of Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, transports us to the Vienna of the 19th century, where the avant-gardes of science, medicine and art started a revolution that would forever change the way of understanding the human mind -our conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings- and the relationship of the mind and brain to art. It tells how, inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele influenced the founders of the School of Art History in asking themselves certain crucial questions: what does a work of art contribute to whom? do you see it? How do you react to it? Such questions led to new discoveries in the fields of psychology and neurology, which today continue to be explored and revealed the way we see and perceive, feel and think, respond to a work of art and create it. Kandel places these five innovators in the context of the most advanced science in a superbly written, wonderfully documented and beautifully illustrated work that breathes new life into the intellectual exploration undertaken in 19th century Vienna, laying the foundation for future neurological and humanistic research.