Bibliography

Published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018, is the book Work, Body, Leisure. Selected essays are published in installments on this website

The English translation of the famous book by Willemijn Stokvis Cobra 1948-1951 | Terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven, which has seen many editions since it was first published in 1974.

This book and catalog to the exhibition in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, (28.05 2016 - 02.10.2016) focuses not only on the architectural aspects but embraces them as an artist’s synthesis of the arts. Besides his models, drawings, and collages, attention is also given to the designs in order to trace the creative artistic process. This not only provides extensive insight into utopian urban planning, but to a greater degree into a mode of thought and imagination.

Organized by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and guest-curated by UMass Amherst assistant professor Karen Kurczynski, a leading scholar of Danish Cobra artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973), who represents a new generation of art historians specializing in Cobra, the exhibition presents the history of Cobra through paintings, sculpture, prints, and primary documents by artists such as Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Constant, and Corneille.

The exhibition reexamines the unique meeting of a group of young painters and poets brought together by an opti