The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond
Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys (b. 1920) developed his visionary architectural project New Babylon between 1956 and 1974. The project was concerned with issues of "unitary urbanism" and the future of art in a technocratic society and was associated with the activist group the Situationist International. It has had a major impact on subsequent generations of artists, architects, and urbanists. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibit and symposium at New York's The Drawing Center in the fall of 1999, explores the intersection of drawing, utopianism, and activism in a......
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