This book on the renowned postwar avant-garde artistic movement offers a comprehensive insight into Cobra’s history and achievements, and explores its lasting influences on contemporary art. The European artistic collective known as Cobra was born in the wake of World War II’s devastating events, its name an acronym for the native cities of its founders: Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Brussels. The influential group of painters and sculptors had a tremendous impact on the development of European Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary art in general.
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The Avant-garde Won't Give Up

Zie de mens
Book accompanying the exhibition Zie de mens. 100 jaar, honderd gezichten in Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle.

Human Animals | The Art of Cobra
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 opt

Constant. Ruimte + kleur
Catalogue of the exhibition Constant. Ruimte + Kleur at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, May 28-September 25, 2016.

Constant. Space + colour
Catalogue of the exhibition Constant. Ruimte + Kleur at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, May 28-September 25, 2016.

Constant. New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid
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.

Constant. New Babylon. To Us Liberty
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.

Constant. Spelen in Nieuw Babylon
The book Constant - Spelen in Nieuw Babylon takes children on a journy into the world of Constant. Constant is a visionary artist, who lives in a big, grey city, where people have to work hard and nobody has time to play.

New Babylon. Constant
Accompanying the New Babylon presentation by Gallery Borzo at the Features at Art Basel 2015 was a catalogue of the works with a biography by mrs. Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst.

Cobra. Una grande avanguardia europea 1948-1951
Catalogue for exhibition at Fondazione Roma Museo Palazzo Cipolla.