Her gift was to share those insights in the art she left behind.
Nazi comparisons are almost automatically far-fetched, and while it's a stretch for anyone to assert that using Fraktur and the sounds of jackboots cheapen the memory of people killed by the Nazis, it's hardly more unbelievable than comparing the mayor to Hitler, which passes for political insight in certain art circles these days.
In "The Zen of Creativity" (Ballantine Books), he examines artistic inspiration and expression while offering insights into art and Zen aesthetics.
The first deals with innovative thinking and insights in science and art in turn of the century Vienna.
His generous insights into what he looks for in art and artists, and how he looks, are highly informative for artists and appreciators of culture anywhere.
Kandel's books include The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain: From Vienna 1900 to the Present (2012).
In his book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, Dr Kandel explores the science behind our emotional responses to works of art.
EAST ISLIP -- "The Spiritual in Art," group show; also, "Collection Insights: Recent Acquisitions"; through Nov. 17; Islip Art Museum, Irish Lane.
As ravishing as the early work is, you often can't help feeling that in these poems the insights about art and life and death have been learned -- book-learned, that is -- rather than earned.
Really big ideas in art, as in politics, transfix the culture until some new insight provides a way to see through and around them.
