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Banks”to “Visualization.”Each one of the concepts or notions is clearly defined and analyzed, and short bibliographical references are appended. For example, Richard Mark Friedhoff s and William Benzon’sbook Visualization:The Second ComputerReuolution [11 is quoted in order to explain that the term “visualization ”is an overall notion in the field of the most vaned technologies, which today enables one to describe visually complex interactive phenomena and facts that up to now have only been expressed by highly technical mathematical formulae. This visual representation, in the area of electronic creativityand creation, is obtained with the aid of a computer and a video camera, as, for example, in Richard Lowenberg’schoreographic Thermophysics,which embellishes the cover of Claus’sbook. In this work, separate images of a dancer are juxtaposed, accumulated and trans formed by the computer, and a global image is produced in which each color corresponds to a certain temperature in the dancer’s body. In the text on visualization, as in many other parts of this book, the author makes reference to and gives examples from the area of design that constitutes an original feature. But it shows also the fundamental commitment of Claus to an artistic “Gestalttechnology”without boundaries, which presumes that the artist dominating the most advanced, varied and complex of technologies will, from the outset, have in mind the final Gestalt,the final complete form, of his creation. Reference 1. Richard Mark Friedhoff and William Benzon, Visualization: The Second ComputPr RPunlulion (New York Abrdms, 1989). Art and Physics:Parallel V i s min Space, Time and Light Leonard Shlain. William Morrow, New York, NY,U.S.A., 1992. 437 pp., Trade, $25.00. ISBN: 0-688-09752-9. Art and Reality: From Fiedler to Denida: TenApproaches Udo Kultermann. Scaneg Verlag, Munich, Germany, 1992. ISBN: 389235-201-1. ArtijTcialLge II Christopher G.Langton, Charles Taylor,J. Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen, eds. Addison-Wesley,Reading, MA, U.S.A., 1992. 854 pp., illus. Trade, $48.50; paper, $34.50. ISBN: 0-201-52571-2. Cyberspace:First Steps Michael Benedikt, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1992. 431 pp. Paper, $15.95. Engzneering and the Mind’s Eye Eugene S. Ferguson. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1992.241 pp., illus.Trade, $24.95. Hermesand the Golden ThinkingMachine Alexander Tzonis. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1992.284 pp., illus. Paper, $12.95. Leonard0Da Vim*:TheAnatomy of Man Martin Clayton and Ron Philo. Bulfinch Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.,1992. 144pp., illus. $40.00. ISBN: 0-8212-1916-2. Leaardo Da Vinn‘’s ‘Paragone’:A Critical Interpretation with a New Edition of the Textin the Codex Urbmas ClaireJ. Farago. E.J. Brill, the Netherlands, 1992.472 pp., illus. Trade, $114.50. ISBN: 90-0409415-6. Mazesf i the Mind: Computersand the Unexpected Clifford A. Pickover. St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY,U.S.A., 1992.455 pp.,illus. Trade, $32.95. ISBN: 0-312-08165-0. MouingImage:ElectronicArt Exh. cat., Zentrum ftir Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe and Oktagon Verlag, Munchen-Stuttgart, Germany, 1992. 160pp., illus. Trade. Naturally IntelligentSystems Maureen Caudill and Charles Butler. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.,1992. Paper, $10.95, Nine Pioneers inAmerican Graphic Design R. Roger Remington and BarbaraJ. Hodik. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1992. 179 pp., illus. Paper, $24.95. Rodchenko:Flying Objects Exh. cat., Arkana, ed. Lufthansa German Airlines, 1991. 124 pp. German text. ISBN: 392357-16-3. VincentVanGo&: Chemicals,Crises,and CreatiziQ Wilfred Niels Arnold. Birkhauser, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1992. 224 pp.. illus. Trade, $49.50. ISBN: 0-8176-3616-1. VirtualReality Playhouse Nicholas Lavroff. Waite Group Press, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A., 1992. 128pp., illus. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 1-878739-19-0. 174 Reviews ...