Leonardo Reviews On-Line

May 2011

Compression & Purity by Will Alexander. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Interface Criticism: Aesthetics beyond Buttons, edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Soren Pold. Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman.

Lumo: One Woman's Struggle to Heal in a Nation Beset by War by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

Octopus Time: Bellmer Painting by Herbert Lust. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

Paris 1919: Inside the Peace Talks That Changed The World by Paul Cowan. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art by Alison Syme. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

U-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change by Museum of Contemporary Photography and Glass Curtain Gallery. Reviewed by Elizabeth Straughan, Deborah Dixon and Harriet Hawkins.

April 2011

New Realisms: 1957-1962: Object Strategies between Readymade and Spectacle, edited by Julia Robinson. Reviewed by Stephen Petersen.

Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archives in Contemporary Art from Repository of Documents to Art Medium by Simone Osthoff. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon. Reviewed by Amy Ione.

Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, edited by Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

La science (n')e(s)t (pas) l'art: Brèves rencontres by Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond. Reviewed by Jacques Mandelbrojt.

Transdiscourse 1: Mediated Environments, edited by Andrea Gleiniger, Angelika Hilbeck and Jill Scott. Reviewed by Rob Harle.

March 2011

Air, edited by John Knechtel. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

February 2011

Autobiography of Mark Twain. The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al. Reviewed by Richard Kade.

BioArt and the Vitality of Media by Robert E. Mitchell. Reviewed by Daniel López del Rincón.

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, edited by Wu Hung, with the assistance of Peggy Wang. Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman.