THIS year, University College London made the world’s first professor of neuroaesthetics. In recent decades, he has used brain imaging techniques to pioneer the modern study of visual perception, as Nobel laureate Eric Kandel writes on the jacket of , and his earlier books include an impressive written (in French) with the painter Balthus. His new book aims to bring these two areas of expertise together by applying the neuroscience of creativity to artists, writers and composers such as Michelangelo, Dante and Wagner, and so it arouses high expectations.…
