Leonardo Reviews Online

November 2020

The Birth of the Idea of Photography by François Brunet; translated by Shane B. Lillis. Reviewed by Stephen Petersen.

Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal by Tim Satterthwaite. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Outlaw: Author Armed and Dangerous by Rédoine Faïd; Jérômé Pierrat, interviewer; John Galbraith Simmons and Jocelyne Geneviève Barque, translators. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

Photography from Turin Shroud to Turing Machine by Yanai Toister. Reviewed by Ana Peraica.

Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature. Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini.

December 2020

Des opérations d'écriture qui ne disent pas leur nom by Franck Leibovici. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

E-Co-Affectivity: Exploring Pathos at Life's Material Interfaces by Marjolein Oele. Reviewed by Gregory Tague.

From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial Aesthetic by Margaret A. Boden and Ernest A. Edmonds. Reviewed by Bronac Ferran.

Heirloom Fruits of America: Selections from the USDA Pomological Water-color Collection. No author; introduction by Daniel J. Kevles. Reviewed by Ellen K. Levy.

Jean DeGroote: In de stilte van de dingen (In the Quiet of Things) by Willem Elias, Eric Bolle, Daan Rau, Edith Doove, Marc Ruyters, Koen Van Damme and Sebastian Morra. Reviewed by Robert Maddox-Harle.

Krøyer: An International Perspective by Marianne Saabye and In the Light of Italy, A Danish-Norwegian Artist Community 1879–1886 by Jan Kokkin, Anne-Mette Villumsen and Marianne Saabye. Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini.

Les troubles du récit: pour une nouvelle approche des processus narratifs by Jean-Marie Schaeffer. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive; Rosmarie Waldrop, translator. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

January 2021

Contemporary French and Franco-phone Narratology edited by John Pir. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

iBauhaus: The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideals and Design by Nicholas Fox Weber. Reviewed by Mike Mosher.

Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus by John Blakinger. Reviewed by Ian Verstegen.

The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk by John Melillo. Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith.

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger; translated by Shaun Whiteside. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

Une fille comme une autre by Jan Baetens. Reviewed by Edith Doove.