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Gift quality. Fine and bright color pictorial hardcover with crisp bright text throughout. From an artist's scholar's private library with her small attractive book stamp to the opening flyleaf which actually enhances the book going nicely nicely with the design and subject matter throughout Beautifully illustrated throughout with a deeply realized text. Essays by Benjamin Buchloh, Mark Wigley, Rosallyn Deutsche, Anthony Fidler, Elizabeth Diller, Bernard Tschumi, Martha Rosler, Thomas McDonough and Catherine de Zegher. All beginning with the Dutch artist C. Nieuwehuys who developed his visionary architectural complex between 1956 anbd 1974. Emerging from discussions, a remarkable activist group. Concerned with the future of art in a technocratic world. These essays in the book explore many subjects including a wide range. They used this to reconsider the role of drawing in an electronic age. Gift quality all around.
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New. 026204191X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED-152 pp. With 131 ills. (20 col. ). 27 x 22 cm. /10.6 x 8.6 x 0.7 inches. Description: "Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys (b. 1920) developed his visionary architectural project New Babylon between 1956 and 1974. Emerging out of the remarkable activist group the Situationist International, the project was concerned with issues of "unitary urbanism" and the future of art in a technocratic society. It has had a major impact on subsequent generations of artists, architects, and urbanists. Exploring the intersection of drawing, utopianism, and activism in a multimedia era, The Activist Drawing not only traces this historical moment but reveals surprisingly contemporary issues about the relationship between a fully automated environment and human creativity. Several decades before the current debate about architecture in the supposedly placeless electronic age, Constant conceived an urban and architectural model that literally envisaged the World Wide Web. The inhabitants of his New Babylon drift through huge labyrinthine interiors, perpetually reconstructing every aspect of the environment according to their latest desires. Walls, floors, lighting, sound, color, texture, and smell keep changing. This network of vast 'sector' can be seen as a physical embodiment of the Internet, where people configure their individual Web sites and wander from site to site without limits. With its parallels to our virtual world, New Babylon seems as radical today as when it was created. The essays explore the relevance of Constant's utopian work to that of his peers in the Situationist International and experimental architectural movements of the 1960s, as well as later generations of architects and artists. They use Constant's revolutionary project as a springboard to reconsider the role of drawing in an electronic age."--with a bonus offer--
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Very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 152 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition. Oversized illustrated hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Some light soiling and edgewear to covers, internally a fine clean tight unmarked copy. Richly illustrated throughout. Uncommon.
