Main entry:

Constant, 1920-2005, artist.

Title & Author:

Constant : New Babylon. To us, liberty / texts: Laura Stamps [and four others] ; translations: Sue McDonnell.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz Verlag ; The Hague, Netherlands : Gemeentemuseum den Haag, [2016]
©2016

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, portraits ; 30 cm

Notes:
Exhibition catalog.
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, May 28 - September 25, 2016, in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, where the exhibition--in different form--took place October 21, 2015 - February 29, 2016. The exhibition Constant: Space + color, from Cobra to New Babylon, 28 May-25 September 2016 was hosted concurrently by the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Benno Tempel -- Constant's New Babylon : Pushing the Zeitgeist to its limits / Laura Stamps -- Constant's New Babylon and De Stijl / Willemijn Stokvis -- Extreme hospitality / Mark Wigley -- Performing the common city : On the crossroads of art, politics, and public life / Pascal Gielen -- The topsy-turvy as utopian architecture / Rem Koolhaas and Pascal Gielen discuss Constant -- Constant--New Babylon. To us, liberty / Laura Stamps -- Cobra--War & revolution : 1948-1951 -- Towards a "synthesis of arts" : 1951-1956 -- A world without borders : 1956-1958 -- New Babylon in progress : 1958-1969 -- New Babylon--Destruction & confusion : 1969-1974 -- Another city for another life : 1959 / Constant -- Lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London : 1963 / Constant -- New Babylon--Ten years on : 1980 / Constant -- Biography of Constant : Amsterdam, 1920-Utrecht, 2005 / Trudy van der Horst.
Text in English, translated from the Dutch.

ISBN:

9783775741347 (English edition) ; (hardbound)
3775741348 (English edition) ; (hardbound)

Subject:

Constant, 1920-2005 Exhibitions.
Constant, 1920-2005.
Visionary architecture in art Exhibitions.
Art, Dutch 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture visionnaire dans l'art Expositions.
Art néerlandais 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Dutch.
Visionary architecture in art.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Stamps, Laura, 1979- author.
McDonnell, Sue, translator.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, host institution, issuing body, publisher.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, host institution.
Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands), host institution.
Hatje Cantz Verlag, publisher.
Germany Baden-Württemberg Ostfildern.
Netherlands South Holland Hague.

New Babylon. To us, liberty

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293225
Call No.: BIB 237983
Status: Available