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['s-Gravenhage], Staatsuitgeverij / Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1980. 127 pp. Ills (few col.). Softcover. 4to. - Cover with very light shelfwear. Overview of the work of the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys (b. 1920). - Text in Dutch. - Published on the occasion of, and also serving as a catalogue for, the exhibition at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, September 1980. …

Paperback. Condizione: Near fine. First Edition. Haags Gmeentemuseum, 1974. Softcover in white wrappers with tiel in black to front cover. First Edtiion, First Printing. 12 x 9 inches. 120 pages with numerous illustrations and color photographic images throughout. Accompanying essays and text in Dutch. BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy showing light overall rubbing, wear and soiling/toning to white covers, a bluish hue from offsetting to rear cover. Nieuwenhuys' New Babylon was based on the idea that architecture itself would allow and instigate a transformation of daily reality. New Babylon is an anti-capitalist city perceived and designed in 1959-74 as a future potentiality by visual artist Constant Nieuwenhuys. Initially known as Dériville (from "ville dérivée", literally, "drift city"), it was later renamed New Babylon. Henri Lefebvre explained: "a New Babylon.was to be the figure of good that took the name of the cursed biblical city and transformed itself into the city of the future. In the 1950s, Constant had already been working for years on his "New Babylon" series of paintings, sketches, texts, and architectural models describing the shape of a post-revolutionary society. Constant's New Babylon was to be a series of linked transformable structures, some of which were themselves the size of a small city Perched above ground. In the New Babylon, the bourgeois shackles of work, family life, and civic responsibility would be discarded. The post-revolutionary individual would wander from one leisure environment to another in search of new sensations. Beholden to no one, he would sleep, eat, recreate, and procreate where and when he wanted. Self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction were Constant's social goals. Deductive reasoning, goal-oriented production, the construction and betterment of a political community--all these were eschewed. .…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condition: Goed. Binding: Paperback. Year: 1974. Description: Prima strak net boekje met lichte verkleuring, leesvouw rug en deukje hoekje. Enkele gebruik-/opslagsporen.

Softcover, 120 pages; in Dutch; very good condition; small sticker on spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Exh. cat. Den Haag (Staatsuitgeverij/Haags Gemeentemuseum) 1980; 29,5 x 21,5 cm. 127 pp.; softcover. Richly illustrated in color and b/w. Text in Dutch. NEAR FINE COPY [Art / Dutch artist [Nederlandse Kunstenaars] ].

('s-Grav., Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1974); 30x21,5 cm. Softcover (l.sleets). 120 pp., text in Dutch, inleiding J.L. Locher, noten, 8 platen in kleur, teksten/ documentaties door Constant, geïllustreerde catalogus van tentoongestelde constructies/ maquettes (89 nrs.). In goede staat/ Good.