JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The MIT Press and Leonardo are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Leonardo. This 30-minute VHS videotape is a visual study of the Mandelbrot set, a subject familiar to Leonardo readers. Over 20 enlarged regions along the edge of the set are displayed with animation through variations of the color palettes used. Electronic music accompanies, but is not directly connected to, the images. This is a useful illustration tape for educators in computer graphics. PERFORMANCE ART: FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT by RoseLee Goldberg. Thames and Hudson, London, U.K., 1988. 216 pp., illus. Paper, ?4.95. ISBN: 0-500-20214-1.Performance Art is as old as human society itself. Whether we think of primitive tribal ritual, medieval mystery plays or a Dada-esque 'happening', they all have one common aspect: use of performers in performance (with or without staging) to express artistic or other concepts. RoseLee Goldberg devotes the bulk of her history to the present century, in which this most adventurous art form-one that cannot be traded or reproduced, only directly experiencedhas flowered and flourished as never before. This is an essential and welcome critical documentation of an art that is ephemeral by nature, yet has proved to be far-reaching in influence.
ROBERTOROSSELLINI by Peter Brunette. Oxford University Press, New York, U.S.A., 1987. 440 pp., illus. Cloth, $29.95, ?22.50. ISBN: 0-19-504988-8.If one were asked to choose only one film to represent the postwar Italian film industry, Rossellini's Roma, citta aperta signal, it is simply that artistic activities will in the future be even more lively and flourishing.This 30-minute VHS videotape is a visual study of the Mandelbrot set, a subject familiar to Leonardo readers. Over 20 enlarged regions along the edge of the set are displayed with animation through variations of the color palettes used. Electronic music accompanies, but is not directly connected to, the images. This is a useful illustration tape for educators in computer graphics.
PERFORMANCEART: FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT by RoseLee Goldberg. Thames and Hudson, London, U.K., 1988. 216 pp., illus. Paper, ?4.95. ISBN: 0-500-20214-1.Performance Art is as old as human society itself. Whether we think of primitive tribal ritual, medieval mystery plays or a Dada-esque 'happening', they all have one common aspect: use of performers in performance (with or without staging) to express artistic or other concepts. RoseLee Goldberg devotes the bulk of her history to the present century, in which this most adventurous art form-one that cannot be traded or reproduced, only directly experiencedhas flowered and flourished as never before. This is an essential an...
