Leonardo Reviews Online

February 2018

Arthur Balfour's Ghosts: An Edwardian Elite and the Riddle of Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings by Trevor Hamilton. Reviewed by Anna Walker.

Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond by Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynne E. Frederiksen; foreword by Emily Wilcox. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media by Shannon Mattern. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka.

I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival by Rick Massimo. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by A.J. Lees. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon. Reviewed by Boris Jardine.

William Blake and the Age of Aquarius by Stephen F. Eisenman, with contributions from Mark Crosby, Elizabeth Ferrell, Jacob Henry Leveton, W.J.T. Mitchell, John P. Murphy. Reviewed by Michael Mosher.

JANUARY 2018

The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World by Ian Stewart. Reviewed by Phil Dyke.

One and Five Ideas: On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism by Terry Smith; Image and Text in Conceptual Art: Critical Operations in Context by Eve Kalyva. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by Anthony Brandt and David Eagle-man. Reviewed by Amy Ione.

Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray, edited by Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol and Bernd M. Scherer. Reviewed by Edith Doove.

Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley. Reviewed by David G. Stork.

Film as Philosophy, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. Reviewed by Will Luers.

DECEMBER 2017

Gallery Sound by Caleb Kelly. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music by Daniel Warner. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Museum and Archive on the Move: Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era edited by Oliver Grau, Wendy Coones and Viola Rühse. Reviewed by Ana Peraica.

Patrick Tresset: Human Traits and the Art of Creative Machines edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński. Reviewed by Rob Harle.

So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein by Jeff Solomon. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

NOVEMBER 2017

BioArt and Bacteria by Anna Dumitriu. Reviewed by Charissa N. Terranova.

ChildArt Magazine: Arts and Mind—The Brain Science of Human Experience, guest edited by Susan Magsamen. Reviewed by Amy Ione.

Paranomia by Christoph Keller. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.