Leonardo

Front MatterSource: Leonardo, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1972), pp. i-iiPublished by: The MIT PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1572464 .

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V-I ART & SCIENCE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

LEONARDO REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE L'ARTISTE CONTEMPORAIN

Founder-Editor: Frank J. Malina Frank J. Malina Fondateur-Directeur:

Articles by Artists JAMES W. DAVIS: Unified drawing through the use of hybrid pictorial elements

and grids 1 RALPH J. TURNER: Extraterrestrial landscapes through the eyes of a sculptor 11 ROBERT JAY WOLFF: On the relevance of abstract art: A memoir 19

General Articles ELENA DE BERTOLA: On space and time in music and the visual arts 27 JEHANGIR BHOWNAGARY: Creativity of the magician 31 YONA FRIEDMAN: On models of utopias and social ecology 37

Notes TOMASJ and MICHAL BRIX: On modular structures on the Moon 43 MANUEL BROMBERG and HENRY P. RALEIGH: A polyester casting process for

replicating cliff surfaces for artistic purposes 47 DONALD BROOK: Toward a definition of conceptual art 49 IVAN INGEN: On the interpretation of my drawings and watercolours 51 HAROLD A. LAYER: Figurative photo-sculpture with 3-D pointillism 55 DAVID SMITH: Kinetic art: The shift register, a circuit for sequential switching

of lights 59

Documents JOHN FERREN: Visual art: The current situation 63 DOROTHY NEWMARK: An interview with Stephan Von Huene on his audio-

kinetic sculptures 69 Salient points of the general report of the Unesco Intergovernmental Con-

ference on Cultural Policies of special interest to artists 73

Terminology 77

Books 79

International Opportunities for Artists 85

Calendar of Events: 1972 89

Letters 91

Vol. 5 No. 1 Winter/Hiver 1972

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LEONARDO REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE L'ARTISTE CONTEMPORAIN

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I amfully conscious that, not being a literary

man, certain presumptuous persons will think

that they may reasonably blame me; alleging

that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks!

Do they not know that I might retort as Marius

did to the Roman Patricians by saying: that

they, who deck themselves out in the labours of

others will not allow me my own. They will

say that I, having no literary skill, cannot

properly express that which I desire to treat of;

but they do not know that my subjects are to be

dealt with by experience rather than by words;

and (experience) has been the mistress of those

who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will

cite her in all cases.

LEONARDO DA VINCI Reprinted with permission

from The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, JEAN PAUL

RICHTER, 2nd Ed. Plt6. Oxford University Press (1939).

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Parce que je ne suis pas lettrc, certains

presomptueux pretendent avoir lieu de me

blamer, en alleguant que je ne suis pas un

humaniste. Stupide engeance, ils ne savent pas,

ceux-la, que je pourrais leur repondre, comme

Marius aux patriciens romains: 'Ceux qui se

prevalent eux-mmemes des efforts d'autrui ne

veulent pas me laisser les miens.' Ils diront que,

faute d'avoir des lettres, je ne peux bien dire ce

que je veux exprimer. Or, ils ignorent que mes

oeuvres sont plut&t sujettes de l'experience que des

paroles d'autrui; et l'experience fut la maitresse

de ceux qui ecrivirent bien; et moi aussi, je la

prends pour maitresse, et en tous les cas,

je l'all Luerai.

LEONARD DE VINCI De: Traite de la Peinture,

Traduction nouvelle d'apres le codex vaticanus avec un commentaire perpetuel par

Peladan. Librairie Ch. Delagrave, Paris (1910).

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