Constant : New Babylon. To us, liberty / texts: Laura Stamps, Willemijn Stokvis, Mark Wigley, Pascal Gielen, Trudy van der Horst ; translations: Sue McDonnell.

By: Constant, 1920-2005Contributor(s): Stamps, Laura, 1979- [author.] | McDonnell, Sue [translator.] | Stokvis, Willemijn [author.] | Wigley, Mark [author.] | Gielen, Pascal [author.] | Horst, Trudy van der [author.] | 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.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: Ostfildern, Germany : The Hague, Netherlands : Hatje Cantz Verlag ; Gemeentemuseum den Haag, [2016]©2016 Edition: English editionDescription: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, portraits ; 30 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3775741348 (English edition); (hardbound)Other title: New Babylon. To us, libertyUniform titles: Constant, New Babylon, Aan ons de vrijheid. English Subject(s): Constant, 1920-2005 -- Exhibitions | Visionary architecture in art -- Exhibitions | Art, Dutch -- 20th century -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: N6953.C57 A4 2016
Contents:
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
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Exhibition catalog

Published 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 Sof©Ưa, 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

Exhibition, 'Constant - New Babylon. To Us, Liberty' : May 28-September 25, 2016, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Exhibition, 'Constant - New Babylon. To Us, Liberty' : October 21, 2015-February 29, 2016, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Exhibition, 'Constant: Space + color, from Cobra to New Babylon' : May 28-September 25, 2016, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands

Text in English, translated from the Dutch