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Those particularly one by cezanne should not have been printed

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Dont buy this book if youre looking for some new definitive something or other regarding proust

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I have read numerous reviews of this book and was afraid that it would be too difficult to understand given the title and subject matter

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I was surprised to find it clearly written and definitely accessible even without a background in either art or science

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Having worked in the kitchens of le cirque 2000 and le bernardin and in the lab of nobel prizewinning neuroscientist eric kandel he is uniquely qualified to write a book of vivid cases where artists prefigured the findings of modern neuroscience

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In fact i was going to skip that one altogether but lucky for me i didnt

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Least favorite essay was the one on gertrude stein

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I wasnt intrigued at all by her experiments at automatic writing nor was i enthralled by lehrers thesis that this somehow revealed a universal grammar and syntax underlying all languages