Constant
Subtitle: New Babylon. To us, liberty
By: texts: Laura Stamps [and four others] ; translations: Sue McDonnell
Contributors: Stamps, Laura, 1979- author; McDonnell, Sue, translator; Haags Gemeentemuseum; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands); Hatje Cantz Verlag
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783775741347
Subjects: Dutch Art; Exhibitions; Visionary architecture in art
Other titles: New Babylon. To us, liberty
Work titles: Constant, New Babylon, Aan ons de vrijheid
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.

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.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Benno Tempel; title: Constant's New Babylon :; title: Pushing the Zeitgeist to its limits  -- Laura Stamps; title: Constant's New Babylon and De Stijl  -- Willemijn Stokvis; title: Extreme hospitality  -- Mark Wigley; title: Performing the common city :; title: On the crossroads of art, politics, and public life  -- Pascal Gielen; title: The topsy-turvy as utopian architecture  -- Rem Koolhaas and Pascal Gielen discuss Constant; title: Constant--New Babylon. To us, liberty  -- Laura Stamps; title: Cobra--War & revolution :; title: 1948-1951 --; title: Towards a "synthesis of arts" :; title: 1951-1956 --; title: A world without borders :; title: 1956-1958 --; title: New Babylon in progress :; title: 1958-1969 --; title: New Babylon--Destruction & confusion :; title: 1969-1974 --; title: Another city for another life :; title: 1959  -- Constant; title: Lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London :; title: 1963  -- Constant; title: New Babylon--Ten years on :; title: 1980  -- Constant; title: Biography of Constant :; title: Amsterdam, 1920-Utrecht, 2005 -- Trudy van der Horst.